Moonspear shrimps is bugs

She did want to talk about it. So far the only one who had given her the opportunity was Towhee, and after Figment froze her out from sharing anything remotely unhappy that she’d been through, the invitation meant more.

I stepped up into leadership when I married Germanicus. We just both wanted children, I thought, and he was nice. Honest, at first, if a little serious. I started thinking it might even work. So I tried to help turn Mereo into a home that our kids would want to take part in. When spring came around, though, he left me for someone else, and the rest of the pack left with him. She hadn’t given them the opportunity to remain but they hadn’t fought for it either. They’d all split the instant they could.

He’d been in love with another wolf the whole time, and just been… I’m not even sure. It was all a lie, again. The hurt hadn’t left yet, even months later. It wasn’t crippling or the kind that brought tears, but there was a low anger that still burned over everything that happened. I was never really a leader to them either. If she had been, more would have cared and more would have stayed.