Duskfire Glacier Ain't nothin but a goodbye town

Oh, that made it all better. Now they could go back to exactly the way things were before. Thank goodness. She wanted to spout further sarcasm, turn and walk away, but even Danica knew there were times when one held their tongues. She was learning, slowly, how to navigate the minefield that was living with other wolves. Besides, things would never go back to the way they were, and to say they would was just stupidity.

And if anything, this week had taught her some perspective. "It may have been wrong, but I think it was for the best. I was so angry then, but now... I don't think I could hav stayed anyway. Knowing what you saw me as, and what you thought of me." She shook her head. "I couldn't live like that, and I doubt you could had either." It would have become the game of avoidance they had been playing this last week, only amplified. And as Alpha, Bazi couldn't have wolves around who wouldn't go near her.

"So yeah, it was a dick move. But if you are gonna condemn me, might as well go all the way and save us both the problem of pretending."