Blacktail Deer Plateau Harpy's fury

Dante listened quietly as Saena said her piece, the words almost but not quite eliciting a growl. It was suddenly clear to him again how strongly biased both Junior and Saena were, and how young. Did Junior fear so much losing a rank that she had never even held?. And did she think so little of her packmates that she expected to overshadow them?

"It was not her actions against Finley that I punished, and if she had expressed her feelings I likely would have sent Finley away with escort. Her reasons were good, but her course of action was not. We can't have members going over us like that and not do something to show it won't be tolerated. What would you have had me do to punish her?" He rumbled, frustrated. "I have been in your corner from the get go. I traveled to the Caldera and told Peregrine to his face that he and his pack were no longer welcome here. I threw out my own friendship with their pack and may very well have done the same to everyone else. But did you hear any of them complain? Even Blue, who was like a sister to him, stood behind it because we care about you.. And yet still you tell me that I am siding with outsiders."

He didn't know how to proceed. Either she would see that he was doing his best here or she would not, but he had done all he could to prove that he wanted his pack to be happy, the hell with the others. "I honestly don't think that's a question I can answer. I've told you my reasons and that I fully believe you belong here. But you have to believe it too." His tone held a bit of defeat. He could fight all he wanted to keep this pack together, but in the end he couldn't hold them all here. Junior had illustrated that point rather well.