Blacktail Deer Plateau Take these broken wings and learn to fly

Junior wasn't directing the words at Finley, per se, and so did not expect any particular reaction. When Finley responded nonetheless, sounding a bit like she didn't give a shit about the juvenile's problems, Junior looked at her sharply. She felt a flare of hurt, then another of indignant anger as the she-wolf sprawled on the floor as if bored by the teenager's troubles.

"You don't have to be a bitch," Junior said archly. Don't you think I've been through enough? she wanted to say. She could shake her ruined legs in front of the woman's face... but that would be calling attention to the fact that her wounds were self-inflicted in response to her father's abandonment. So the youth said nothing else and instead tried to burn holes in Finley's face with her mismatched eyes.