Redhawk Caldera trust issues

this ain't goin' well for Fin...

It seemed that Finley trauma at this meeting was far from over, as she had foolishly allowed herself to believe. She glanced over at Grimm as the female excused herself to urinate and couldn't help but feel some bitter (and very canine) satisfaction at the fact that she'd likely made it happen with her subtle display. From that moment, it seemed like the rest of the meeting would pass without incident - Dove told her sister that she was awesome, then Fox shifted the attention over to Somnia for her turn.

Fin stared at Somnia as she proceeded to compliment Grimm on her ability to... what? "Test the water"? "Figure out what is wrong and right the hard way"? The beta couldn't have known that Somnia knew what had happened between Grimm and Elwood, but her mind went ahead and jumped to the conclusion that she did, and she was actually commending her for bravely banging Elwood.

The look the beta gave her friend was difficult to read at best, for she herself didn't know how to react. It was too stunning to process, and immediately she felt overwhelmed with hurt, betrayal and the poisonous seeping of anger through her blood. Were it any other circumstance, Fin would have lost her cool and confronted the both of them right then and there, but she was far too loyal to Peregrine and Fox to bring up this conflict in a meeting that was all about the exact opposite. And so, she swallowed her pride and sat fuming, even when her friend proceeded to pour salt in the wound by giving her higher-ranking superior permission to take her turn. Perhaps innocently said, but in her already burning mood, quite blatantly disrespectful.

By some gift from the gods, Fin managed to turn her gaze calmly across the gathering to land on one of the newcomers - Jaws, if she remembered correctly. "Jaws, you have a remarkable amount of patience to have put up with my teasing the other day. I think you're going to make a great addition to the pack," she said with a smile that did not reach her eyes. It was short and sweet (and all true too!). All the better to end this awful meeting so that she could get the hell away from all of them so that she could implode in private.