Novella didn't think this could really get much worse if she was honest, her mother had already shouted at her but of course the girl would be horribly mistaken. Her father would suddenly arrive as well and whilst her mother had calmed, his observant gaze and question would bring about a fear that all of this was about to start again. It would only make her want to shrink once more even if Dutiron still seemed calm for now.
Her mother would speak now explaining the situation in a way that would make Novella wince in anticipation of another verbal beating. Surely her mother could have left that detail out in favour of the fact that Frith wanted to join. She would glance to him now momentarily, he stood there in a submissive manner as well and it would only bring another surge of guilt through her.
"He wants to join the pack dad." Novella would explain looking back towards her father now. "We didn't want to wake you though..." She tried repeating the explanation she'd already given her mother though after all of the shouting and distress she couldn't even bring herself to finish, the argument sounding even more feeble this time than it had before, even if it was the truth.
