Alexandrite glares at Reqouis as he tells her that her mother didn't want her. It was not what she wanted to hear, how would he know? She didn't understand that her mother had kidnapped him as a pup. She didn't understand that her mother couldn't want her. She also didn't understand how a grown adult would need her, of all people, her dad.
The elder remarks how not all wolves are good. Mismatched eyes blink up at the very tall leader, for some reason the tone of her voice was soothing. She had never heard a tone like that, her mother certainly hadn't used a soft tone like that with her.
Another wolf comes out of the woods and sidles up to the gathering, Alexa shrinks back again, trying to pretend she is a snail.
The grown-ups talk, and it's revealed that this male that came up... who does kinda look like Copper to some degree... is their dad. She says nothing about staying in his den. She doesn't move. She is a snail. She's done moving. She doesn't want to go with anybody. She's been passed from one stranger to another, her mother didn't want her, hell her dad probably doesn't want her. No one wants her. Might as well be a worm. She liked being a snail instead though, her little white tail pressed protectively over her hip and curled up like a snail's shell.
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