Always another side

Flurry was much better at hiding her feelings this time, face remaining much more neutral even as she felt her stomach drop. The worst part was to some extent she could understand it, she could see how the version of her that hadn't been just making everything more complicated would have agreed to go with it had she been alive. If some amount of responsibility hadn't found itself on her shoulders and she'd not picked a path that would separate her from her siblings... She'd have just kept right on trucking. If Sparrow had still been the one leading them into battle, she'd always been so easy to follow. Even worse, some part of Flurry wanted to go back, she wished she could still feel that way. Would that mean she'd be part of the problem? Absolutely but it was easier for her to accept that in ignorance than realize what knowing all this meant.

She kept her gaze on his paw, counting as he spoke. She even nodded as the day on the beach, the day of Sparrow's birthing were mentioned. The last one... Her own father going to harass the woman just because he could. Flurry sighed and closed her eyes. Well she couldn't deny there was some disappointment. None of this was what she'd once believed it was, what she wanted it to be. Picking fights, bedding women, creating friendly rivalries... Everything in good fun. Not courting war. Courting war over one woman like there weren't hundreds of others who'd have given anything to pick the former king... Hell, another woman had picked her! The only good thing as far as she could see was she now had a name for the bastard baby kicker. Flurry opened her eyes as the warlord finished and she nodded again.

"Thank you warlord." It felt right to be formal here, she even dropped her  more casual speech pattern. "I was only aware of the kidnapping and when Azure attacked Sparrow while she was in labour. I was quite young at the time, about all I knew was that our King was being attacked, newborns were in danger, that we had to help get the puppies out and that Azure had kicked my sister hard enough to send her rolling." While she was keeping her tone restrained it would be a lie to say Flurry wasn't feeling a tiny bit defensive. No doubt Azure had every right to anger and to taking his mate back but he'd also chosen to directly endanger children who had been completely unrelated prior to that moment. He'd thrust all of them into a fight they had no part in, but now did. Her siblings, and even Sparrow's children... They had all been innocent... And Azure hadn't cared. True Deluge had thrown herself at him, but what of Sparrow's children? They couldn't do any more than helplessly crawl around blindly. "It wasn't until I was older that I understood how the two were connected. I know now how there is some justification to the actions I bore witness to, but at the time I was a child who only knew a man I'd never met before hated me and my family and everyone I knew, and tha he hurt my sister, to my eyes, because he could." She was being as diplomatic about this as she could. In a sense she wanted to say everything was justified, that they had wronged Sirius' family to a degree it left her reeling and wishing she hadn't asked... And yet she couldn't help but feel a bit frustrated that she was even forced to ask why she'd had to watch her sister get kicked, why they'd had to move the newborns quickly... Was there a line? Would they only ever stop once they'd destroyed each other fully? Would it only be enough when but a single wolf was left between the two of them? Would they keep dragging children into a war they had no part in?

Flurry took a few breaths to calm herself, it was all too much. She had her own personal shit to be dealing with she didn't want to have to try right now to navigate where this left her as the current heir apparent... But she'd done this to herself. "Thank you." She said again. "I know it's not worth much but I am sorry. If it were up to me it would have ended the moment innocent children had become involved. The first time would have been it, there would have never been a second, third, fourth or fifth." She's been watching him counting off, and all five met her criteria, even if he didn't see them all that way. And her words were at least true. Flurry felt more sure than ever she was not fit for leadership, she was pretty sure she didn't want to go home for a while, but if by some miracle she had the power to end this bullshit? She would. Even if it made them resent her, they could take a number! She was starting to resent them for making their mess her job to clean up. The young woman remained silent then, waiting for what would happen next,  half prepared to be attacked verbally or physically for the insinuations she'd made and half prepared to be chased off the warlord's lands. Maybe 1% of her was waiting for him to dismiss her, to signal she could go. Where to? Well only she needed to worry about that.