I got this feeling that I can't go back

Perhaps he felt like he had begun to get long winded with his explanation, but she could have listened to him for hours. As she began to paint the picture for her, she slowly began to understand how he felt toward Eligos, toward Pyrrhic, and about the situation that had really just happened around him and had impacted him so greatly. She understood how it felt to have things happen to her without her really being able to change the course of those actions so for that she was sympathetic. Since she was a loner since birth, it was harder for her to relate to not being able to attain a rank that he had been working toward, though she couldn't help but think about her father when he would tell stories of defending the pack he led, of how he had felt when her grandmother handed him the position, the pressure that went along with it, and the obvious pride he always showed when he told those stories. If that kind of pride and success was something Iroh wanted... she was upset that he didn't get the chance to enjoy that despite the work he had done for it.

She frowned as he explained where he currently stood among it all, her paws still messing with the fur along his scruff absentmindedly while he spoke. She didn't respond right away while she turned over the story again and again in her mind, but there was just some things she couldn't quite understand. Perhaps it was just because she had the perspective of someone who had mostly enjoyed the freedom of living on her own from such a young age, but the "why" was what she couldn't puzzle out. "So... Why did you stay? Why do you continue to stay?" she questioned softly, her brows pulling together with thought as her sapphire gaze refocused on his. "If they've slighted you so much and don't appreciate the work you've put into this, if you don't feel connected to the wolf that leads you... why do you put up with it all?"

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