Despite her admiration for those that sought to obtain rank and prestige, such things had seldom bothered Niviaq. No matter where she was positioned in the pecking order, she remained content and dutiful. It seemed her pleasantness made others give her prestige and leverage and yet she hardly seemed to use it, rather preferring to step back and avoid the conflict that came with such things. Still, she admired those with true tenacity. Every pack needed the fierce and ambitious just as every pack needed the quiet and submissive. Life, after all, was a balancing act. It was a lesson all needed to learn and perhaps today she would be able to divulge such a thing to her younger company - after all, even peace was a matter of balancing and negotiating.

Slowly, she continued amble along her predetermined path, motioning for the younger girl to move along side her as an equal. It was a pleasure, truly, to meet the girl in such a situation. Niviaq had always loved to teach, particularly those that sought something of such a passive nature - healing, peace keeping and kindness... they needed more of that. Even Nootau had a fighting streak in him that Niviaq could not deny; it did not make him cruel, no, but it made him capable of such violence. It is with that thought that the young girl brings up Snowshoe and Niviaq turned to her then, a kindly smile enveloping her features as she nodded. Ah, straight to business, was she? Good, she quite liked that and it made her job much more enjoyable if she had the chance to speak. Seldom seemed to ask her of her opinions on such matters - politics - but she had many.

"It is hard to say without her speaking on the matter, but I dare say some feel a cause is worth more than even their own health. After all, she did not take on such a challenge without her own reasons just as I am sure she does not regret what she did. Is it not noble to fight for what one truly believes in? Would you put your own health before something like that?"

Long winded, perhaps, and yet she turns the girl's question onto her then, moving the spotlight from their pregnant comrade to the girl herself. It is a good question, no? Did she have something she believed in enough to put her own life on the line for? Niviaq knew the feeling well. She had tried so desperately to keep them all together in the past and she wore the scars like threading around her legs and chest. With a curious raised brow and an almost mischievous grin, she turned away but for a moment to sniff wearily at the earth, searching for the particular plan's aroma as she paused for a moment. It was not here, but close surely.

"As for her current condition - she is doing well enough, though I am afraid for her birthing. The body can only take so much before it asks for too much in return. Trust in us, though, that we will ensure she and her children are safe."

With a glance towards the mountain's peek, she motioned once more to follow before turning from their initial trajectory and beginning up the gradual slope. She searches for something in particular and with the recent snow melt, she could not help but wonder if it had grown somewhere other than its usual locale. She can only hope so for the more the better, particularly with Snowshoe and Moonglow's dates fast upon them. There is a lesson in it, too, though Lavender shan't know it till they discover it.

"I... I must ask you, Lavender, why it is you seek the position you do. It is not one so often sought, after all."

She continued on, her nose to the ground as she moved along, passing the younger girl but a brief glance at her question.