YOU COULD BE HAPPY && return

[Masie]

It had hurt having to essentially raise herself since he vanished knowing better than the others that she was still too young to take care of herself. To survive? She had learned some things she shouldn't have learned until she was larger and the raptor would never be able to just apologize away the things she had lost growing up so fast. Obviously that didn't mean she wasn't happy Owen was back and didn't hope he'd step up again now that he was back, it just meant that pain couldn't be removed as easily as forgiveness could be given.

Once he had apologized? The young raptor got back up and walked over next to him falling in line right behind his hind leg. Clearly the hatchling had grown into a juvenile in his absence, no longer willing to run circles around his feet for her own amusement instead having developed the understanding that formation was important to keep within a pack. "Hopefully you're wrong. In the meantime it's just us and the smaller ones so I'll step up for now, so to speak. The pack structure can't be simply an Alpha while my sister is missing." plus the larger pack had already deemed her worthy of some 'power' so to speak, recognized finally that she was not the same as her sisters who lacked an understanding of them.

Her brothers were another issue, no matter how hard she tried "I haven't been able to track them down no matter how many times I combed the territory." it was actually a sad state, their pack was suddenly small, uncomfortably so. But how could they fix that? "For the moment I think we should rebuild my hut and live there, with both of us we can build it big enough." rebuilding a massive nest like they had before? Would be much more difficult without her four sisters.