Heron Lake Plateau Ka-tet.

She was talking around him. Like why was this such a big deal? Honestly the way she talked really was starting to sound kind of cultish to him.  Or something like that.  It felt risky, like that might be a tyrant's excuse to gain power or something -- let's remember Quixote's anarchic roots, if someone was gonna have power, it better be for a real reason.  A name or bloodline should not dictate who lead, and he felt a lot like if Towhee got alphaship again, they'd be back to wondering if she'd set off another bomb -- the way it was, he could act to maybe put a lid on rash decisions... If she was a leader, wouldn't he just be tossed aside, no matter how much she said that wouldn't be the case?  Nobody ever came to him with their concerns, they went to her.

Slightly frustrated but doing his best to not show that he felt insulted, Did I miss something? Last I checked you were a leader. But just somehow that's just not good enough to satisfy that any more? The whole damn pack apparently checks with you first on everything anyway. So what was the point other than to work around limits he might add? He looked back to Raven, The rank has always belonged to you, screw the rest. Just blame me if you have to.  Like come on, he made a good boogeyman.  If this was enough push to get his mate up beside him again in the ranks, he'd take it.