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aure is understandably upset by blodreina's personal feelings on the matter of her pregnancy — that it shouldn't have been allowed to happen before more established members had had their children — and by her blunt dismissal of goufas on the way. how was more mouths to feed meant to help their situation? it would only mean more bodies if the other gedas took the death of the commander poorly. they needed a fos goufa and that was the cold, hard facts of it. it wasn't blodreina's fault that aure didn't like what she had to say. the truth rarely went over smoothly.

in the end, though, despite the words aure tosses at her, no doubt intending to barb and jab, blodreina is immune to them. she does not regret her words and is not apologetic for feeling how she does about the pecking order or lack thereof when it comes to pregnancy. perhaps aure would feel differently if the situation were reversed but blodreina wasn't half as good a wolf. if aure took her words in any way other than they'd been intended then as far as blodreina was concerned that was on the pale sylph and not the ex-wanlida.

it is good that you don't. if you want to be drakru then you have to be drakru. for blodreina it was as simple and as complex as that. as the pale woman turns and departs blodreina does not try to call her back. instead, she turns her back and continues on with what she'd been doing before.