The one who never left. It seemed he had been right to some degree that she was one of the wolves who had seen countless Alphas come and go - he wasn't sure how to feel about such a thing. It was a hard place to relate for he had never so much been beneath an Alpha, had never seen one fail that hadn't been his mother. The first Alpha he had been beneath - Heyel - still ruled from a distance. He could not relate, and though he had tried to better learn empathy, it was simply one of those things he could not understand. What could he say to such a thing? All he could do was nod, addressing what he believed to be an impossible feat - a wolf not being good at anything. She must have had some kind of ability had she survived for so long.

"You underestimate yourself."

It was all he could say as he began to rise once more to his paws as she spoke once again. He frowned at her words, shaking his head slowly. He hadn't expected to come across somebody like her and put in such a position, he was unsure. He could protect but he couldn't protect somebody from the aggression of their own mind. For now, he would do his best but in time, he would need somebody else to discover a way to break Salem free from such a thought process.

"Perhaps the issue lies that you did not put your heart into such pursuits. Have you considered that your said over thinking would allow you analyse issues more thoroughly than others? That your alleged inability to leave would benefit pack morale?"

He posed the question to her with a cocked brow, his tail waving so slowly behind him as his lips pulled into a half smirk. He was right, no? Her apparent weaknesses could be turned into strengths if she would just allow such a thing. Her ability to look back on the past and over think meant she could see issues in the such a past that others might have missed; perhaps she was more useful, more capable, than she could have ever thought.

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