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The answer does not surprise her. Yes I have. Yes I have. It’s the same answer she has now. It involves protecting his family, somehow, and she’s thankful she can say the same. However, Ford is a little weird and she doesn’t know how far the connection goes. She’s kinda weird but not quiet in the same way (at least she hopes), but she smiles at the stupid thought. She likes him, similar to how she’d liked Ingram.

“He died, too. One bite to the throat. He was going for a packmate,” she explains. It was the only answer. There wasn’t any way to stop it, surely, and Ephraim is safe even if a bit wounded. That is what wolves did, though. They protected. Her mother has killed, she thinks, or at least she suspects, and she wasn’t a bad wolf. There’s still hope for her, surely.