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This understanding still came with difficulty. A strong pack was built in cooperation and learning, two things that would be hampered in constant travel. She thought of Ruckus, stunted in growth by both long travel and hardship in hunting. She had not been able to provide for him, but what guarantees did such a life leave?

She took no issue with the conditions of mateship. Redd had always conditioned partnership on a willingness to join as one. No mateship that held divides of loyalty was worthy the name in her mind. The time frame she held less respect for.

She weighed speaking against not. If there was any time, it was now. All children begin weak. How do they grow?

She would not set her own blood up for failure. If it was assumed that learning was not welcome, and that a future was expendable, then she would need to question if this pack was one she might settle in. Redd was no stranger to tests, nor expectations of strength. Yet even her mother had allowed them to grow into such things.