trying to find the right switch

Kitsune made her way along the pack's border, lost in thought. Her world felt different now, without her father in it. He had always been a bit of an enigma. Stoic and emotionless, but steady as a rock. Dependable, until he wasn’t. The hole he had left behind in the pack, in her was indescribable. She loved him, but she hated him too. He hadn’t been torn away. Fate hadn’t taken him from her. He had chosen to leave. He had walked away, like Kitsune and her siblings and her mother meant nothing to him. She had known he was stoic, but cold? Truly, and utterly cold… that had been news to her.

She almost didn’t realise another wolf was at the border until she was just about upon them. So much for the warrior she was training to be. She startled for a moment, and then the Princess drew herself up. This wolf hadn’t called out, had she? Was she lurking at the borders? “Good day to you” the girl said “I’m Kitsune Tachi Oritsu Abraxas, Princess of the Ashen Empire. What brings you to our border?”

"Speech"