Moonspear A bug in the system

He didn't know a Rannoch, and still didn't quite understand what this other wolf could do to make Titmouse kill.  Threaten him? Maybe, but then wouldn't Tit have just gone home instead? After all, the other hadn't been there when it happened.  He couldn't have followed through.

He was scared, Gannet thought a bit defensively, but he knew arguing here would do him no good.  And it was true; he would not have run.  But if his brother hadn't, would they have killed him that much faster?

"He isn't me."  Gannet shrugged, not sure what else to say.  He didn't know much of his brother, either way.  Maybe he was a killer.  Yet it jarred even then when he thought it.  

He was spared responding more when another burst in, causing him to start again.  But this time, even with the serious conversation, a bright grin lit up Gannet's entire face.  "Liffey!"  He hadn't forgotten his original purpose in these parts, but with his side tracked journey of late, seeing her made a lot of the worry melt away.