Your ass better be sitting down

Justice lay there quietly in a rare moment of shared affection. She couldn't remember the last time she had this, and all her rage and hurt slowly ebbed away until she finally sighed. "I get it. And... I understand how you feel," she told him, voice still muffled by his fur. "It seems like everyone just kind of faded away. With Da murdered, Valor being kidnapped, and Mum just giving up and dying... Fable and Exodus just never coming back, and Paladin always busy... and then you disappeared too and I thought you were never coming back. I didn't think I had anyone left."

Well that was enough of that. Any more and she would lose her badass card. Reluctantly she squirmed out of the embrace. "So, hey uhm," she said in an awkward attempt at a change of mood. "So I'm the Sentinel now, that's the beta in charge of the fighters, and I'm testing everyone in the pack who has any sort of fight skill for fight readiness. I don't know what your rank is here, if Aurielle tested you or not, but... You used to be kind of a badass fighter. You kept up on that at all?"