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Tension filled the space between them, but all Jinx could focus on was the way that Pied's lips bunched and pulled in vexation. The Kappa didn't respond physically to that; after all, while logic would have dictated that she was in the wrong, Jinx had lost the concept somewhat. Her mind was made up: they had left her forest, and gone their own way. It was unforgivable. She was too addled by the events to truly see it from Pied's perspective, which was promptly revealed to her.

They call, I obey. That was probably the most that Jinx would supply by way of explanation. That had always been the case. It had been the case when she had left Shearwater Bay in the hands of her sister, despite having coveted her precious title of Mambo since she was a young cub. It had been the case when Sos had first indicated to her that that forest was to be their place of prosperity. And it would be the case now, in her foggy and incomplete record of her short time as Alpha of Bon Dye.

Now the female's lips bunched to an expression similar to the vexation Pied had showed, and the brief lift of ears and hackles suggested, you should have waited longer. She wouldn't have expected them to be leaderless so long — it was not the way of pack to be left without an Alpha even for a day — but to leave the forest and uproot the pack, it was treason. They had sworn an oath. This belief was, of course, in contrast to Jinx's own actions: if her belief that her wolves had wronged her was justified, then why hadn't she chosen to stay in the forest when she came back as well? Was it not hypocritical?

To the final inquiry, and the grating of Pied's voice, she merely lifted a shoulder in apathy, as if to say, I am not responsible for their actions. I do not know where they have gone. There was a lurch in her heart at the mention of their names — she could have claimed Kerberos was dead, as her heart felt was certain with the macabre sight she had seen, but she did not. Nor could she account for Lecter, whose wayward wandering may have been in pursuit of Clarice, his daughter whose presence in his life was thin as gossamer. It may have been in pursuit of Sos.

She longed to put on a display to warn Pied away from the site of her new home, but there was too much tension and underlying curiosity for her to do it just yet. Respect was not established, with both feeling the other to blame for the pack's relocation (or disbanding, since Jinx didn't know what had become of it), although Jinx blamed Pied and company wrongly. There was no reason for the piebald Delta to heed her, and so Jinx waited, albeit reluctantly, for the meeting to take a turn that might permit either of them a chance to depart.