Great Bear Wilderness Summer loving and fights, how it is for us

When Peregrine started talking about Fox, it was enough to make Saena's whole body stiffen. She didn't want to hear anything about that bitch... or so she thought. It turned out that her father was admitting that the woman was a selfish, greedy whore (wasn't that exactly what he'd said?) who only cared about herself. Despite herself, the girl felt her chest inflating slightly, as though putting down Fox elevated her own personal standing somehow.

"You should've trusted everyone when they told you that," Saena said sagely, as if she had any right to. She hadn't given Fox a chance, not really. Granted, she wasn't solely responsible for that—the red-furred woman clearly wanted nothing to do with Peregrine's children, either. "You know, the only time we spent any time with her, she threatened to give us all fleas," Saena recalled. It was disgusting now that she knew what fleas really were.

"I hope you get why everyone didn't like her, now. You might love her, and don't take this wrong, but she was really ungrateful and rude to all of us, especially Aunt Willow." At the time, Saena had welcomed Fox as fervently as Junior had, but that was long gone. She could never forgive the woman for breaking apart her family after they'd done so much to help her, not that Saena truly understood the breadth of it, or why they'd left at all.

Noncommittally, she said, "mom never visited after she left. She didn't care about us, so we shouldn't care about her." Realizing that Peregrine was basically in the same boat, and suddenly feeling too aggressive to continue this encounter, the young female got to her feet. "I should go," she said, a little too quickly. "Thanks for the advice." She began to trot quickly away, hoping he wouldn't say anything personal, but found herself faltering before she was out of earshot.

"We've missed you, you know. You could've come to see us when you stopped by." Despite the slightly acidic bite at the end, this was said as sincerely as Saena could manage it. Offering only a brief glance over her shoulder, the female closed her eyes and began padding back toward home with her head thumping angrily with each step. The further she went, the harder it got not to cry about meeting Peregrine, even if she had no real reason for it.