Stone Circle Counting days

“Well I’m sorry you feel you’ve got nothing to gain, Bonario, but the rest of the pack has everything to lose.”

There was nothing more she could say, of that she was certain! He was fixed in his ways where she was concerned, and she would only be condemned for her efforts!

She retreats as if burned, as if he might reach out and claw at her hide, or as if she didn’t trust herself not to do the same.

“We’re not going to apologize because we want to change their minds. We’re apologizing because it’s the right thing to do,” she paces forward before turning once to look at him again over shoulder.

“Yes.”