drenched in my pain again

A mistake had slipped past her lips and this wolf is clever enough to have caught it. "No, you're right it is a he," she tries to recover. "My head is still stuck in the past. The alpha from my homeland was a she." Well, now Star will have her doubts, but unless she went to the pack and demanded to speak with the Alpha, then she can not know if Rain is telling the truth or covering it up. Her ear flicks as it always does out of habit.

"It is good to hear that your pack is doing well," she says, transitioning off her Alpha in question and back to Star. "I hope that you have good luck in hunting with winter nearly here."