Duskfire Glacier Take Off to the Great White North

Scarlett too disagreed with him, but at least she had done so without making him feel like a monster. She expressed interest in how he'd come to think this way. It had been ingrained in him for so long, Koda's couldn't remember when he'd started forming and shaping his opinions.

"Well, that's how things were back home," he said, back home being the pack in which he was born and raised. Growing up, he'd often clashed with his elders over the seeming unfairness of their traditions. Now that he was grown and on his own, he missed the structure and stability the rigid roles had given his life. Back home, there was rarely any fighting over responsibilities because everyone, male or female, knew their part to play. The plateau pack was a chaotic mess most of the time. Koda believed this was due mostly to the lack of rules. Everyone was allowed to just do whatever they felt like, even ditch the pack at a moment's notice to run off and start a life with a new mate and leave your ex's bratty children behind. Peregrine.

"Before I came here, I didn't know the rest of the world was so different," he said. "And now I feel like I don't belong, and I want to go home." He knew this wasn't an option for him, however. His father would kill him before he let him come crawling back with his tail between his legs.