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Too late. She returned far too late. She had only been gone for a moment, and returned to the splitting of Saatsine.

She had returned to the heart of Saatsine and found barely a soul there. Whatever concern had been washed away by her brief break, more replaced it now. No dark figures in the distant snow greeting and conversing, no running shapes bringing death upon caribou. An odd, murky silence filled the space where there should be life.

That meant few things. There were not many places they could be.

A moment of deliberation, and she took off running to the snow shelter. 

But again - too late. There she found far too many in a place where a mother should enjoy her peace. There was already tension being snapped, accusations of betrayal and challenges being thrown about. And with Black Hawk, it became a feud of Lanzadoii against Lanzadoii over the blood of Lanzadoii. Too much was happening; no longer could she tell what was truth and what was lie, and had no room to debate with herself who was right. 

But what of the children? Was Star Eater a traitor simply for wanting to protect them, as all mothers did? Was that what the Lanzadoii saw of her, an outsider whose protection of her pups was dangerous? She wanted to step in, but heard herself being regarded as a “yearling” and realized speaking would do little to convince them, perhaps even incite the anger more. 

The war was coming to the feet of newborns and she could do nothing about it.