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"Did you ever think that maybe that makes you a shitty Alpha?" Pied blurted before she could bite back the uncharacteristically caustic words. Gods, I sound like Mo, she thought to herself. "Sorry," she added reflexively, although she felt weird apologizing to Jinx at this point. "But if you're just going to up and wander off without a word for indeterminate amounts of time, you shouldn't be a leader and expect others to have faith in you. We made an oath to you and you failed us."

When Jinx expressed distaste, her body language leaving no room for misinterpretation, Pied's lip curled again and her own hackles bristled. Her tail stiffened too. "We were in a bad way. All of our leaders disappeared. We did what we had to do to survive. You broke the oath first," she repeated with an agitated lash of her tail. To drive in her point, she glared at Jinx, her gaze unwavering.

Jinx's apathy regarding the whereabouts of Kerberos and Lecter disgusted Pied. "You leave without a word, don't care about your closest comrades and you clearly blame those of us left behind for doing what was best of ourselves," she summarized, a touch of acid in her voice. "We're so much better off without you," she added without missing a beat, the annoyance leeching out of her voice so that the tone became cold once more.