Broken Boulder but then the special secret sickness starts to eat through you

The Governor's sister was also seething, grieving.


Alarian had returned and dropped the information on her that their mother was dead but when she has pried for information he closed off.  He wouldn't tell her information she deserved to know -- was entitled to.

And although in the sanctuary rank was of little consequence, he had promoted his friend who had never even interacted with any of their pack and had withdrawn so severely she hardly knew there was company.

She thought not for the first time that she simply wasn't happy here... but she was obligated to stay.  She trailed somewhere in the sanctuary, lost in her thoughts when the new subject of her ire seemed to materialize from the trees.

She regarded him coolly, simply waiting.