I swear, I swear that I'm a good kid, Guess I'm good for nothing at all

Despite or maybe because of her nerves Flurry couldn't help but laugh as her mother took a jab at Gilgamesh, and poor Deluge catching strays. She'd apologize to her father in her head later. As Modestly spoke Flurry's demeanour shifted, from slightly on edge to a more relaxed posture. Maybe she shouldn't have assumed her parents would be of one mind and it seemed her mother at least was seeing things similarly to how Flurry did.

"I'd talked to dad, asked him what the story was there." Flurry started hesitantly, she didn't want to throw him under the bus so she was picking her words carefully. "I understand why things happened as they did but I was struggling to piece it all together, I felt like something was missing. And I uh... Wasn't handling Deluge and Scald leaving very well..." She was still unpacking all that mess, what Rexx's sudden leaving had done to her and how that had affected how she saw the rest of her litter mates bouncing. "So I kinda decided to get the information I felt I was missing for myself, and if that meant spending time away from home for a bit... All the better." Flurry grimaced, she still had nothing but guilt for the way she'd yelled at Scald like that. "I was met with Sirius at his border, I introduced myself and told him I was looking to get a fuller picture of our pack's relations. He asked for news on Dread in return."

Flurry fell silent for a moment. Her memories of her talk with the warlord were fraught, jumbled up in her emotions from the argument upon her return and the guilt she now felt for the whole ordeal. "He told me his side of the story, about how Azure and Sparrow had kept sniping at each other but things had eventually started to escalate. About how his children had started getting dragged into it. I told him my view on that day on the beach and what Azure did to Deluge." There was a hard edge to her voice as she remembered the puppy kicking bastard. "Dad thinks he played me but... I don't know. He seemed genuinely disappointment to hear what Azure had done." Flurry turned her gaze downwards. "I probably did overstep my boundaries a bit, I said that I was sad to hear his kids had gotten involved and that if it were up to me it would have stopped the moment innocent children had been dragged into this mess , and he seemed to agree that none of us should have become involved and he said that as long as Dread was with us he would seek peace first." Never mind that technically Dread wasn't with them but the point was it seemed he'd come to a similar conclusion she had... That things had gone too far. "I clarified that I had come out of personal curiosity and not any sort of diplomatic mission. And I don't know... He only found out what my rank meant before I left, I struggle to understand what he'd have gotten out of lying to me." Flurry shook her head. "Maybe he did make a fool of me, I don't know." Doubt. The seed that had been planted before she'd left had sprouted and blossomed, but it was choking the life out of her own confidence.


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