Redsand Canyon I don't know the half of it anymore

In her mind, the blame belonged solely on his father and the events that had caused his father to select one child and flee to begin with. There was nothing he could do otherwise to convince her that the contrary was true.
 
She knew these thoughts were hard to believe. Her opinions maintained logic from the outside world, but the mind was so much more complicated than simply obeying logic. Sometimes, the reckless path was the one easiest to follow. She tilted her head slightly when he insisted that she was too nice before shaking her head. “No, I am simply offering you the kindness you’ve deserved all along but others have been too cowardly to give you.” She offered in return.
 
His throat was dry and soon she was going to have to find him water or recommend relocating temporarily to the oasis to assist with that. She didn’t have any honey on hand due to the nature of the season. “It is difficult because a figure who was supposed to love and protect you failed at his job. It’s hard not to blame yourself for that but wholly it is his problems that led to that. It is nothing you did.” She would help defend him from the worst demons a wolf could ask for: the ones that lived in their own head. He simply deserved better than the shitty cards he had been dealt.