"You know I trust you with my life, but..." Kaleeth began. She held on to him even more tightly, and allowed her head to rest on his shoulder. "I might not be easy to stop in a place like this. If I'm not in one of the big chambers, then you won't be able to move around very much. I know you will do everything you can to keep me from hurting anyone. I know you are better than me, the same as everyone else in the pack. I know all of that, but I can't stop being afraid. I'm afraid you might just get unlucky when you're fighting me, or it just won't be possible for anyone to stop me in time to keep me from killing anyone. I just...I need more training, right?" She said, raising up her head to look at him once more. At this point, she was just trying to force herself to be hopeful. 

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Ahnasha nodded. "Soon, hopefully soon. I imagine all of this will keep both us and Najirra busy for a while, but I'm sure he'll call on us once he can." Ahnasha moved Fendros over on his cot, then laid down beside him with Rhazii in between them. "Until then, I think I'm going to give you more training. No excuses; as soon as you are healed up and ready, I'm going to have you training straight through both of Azura's hours. I'm sure Kaleeth would just love to watch Rhazii for us, with how much she likes children." She said, craning her head to look over at Kaleeth and Janius on the other side of the infirmary. "I do wonder how long it will be before she finally convinces him to have children, or if she can do it at all. That is just not something I can imagine him going through with."

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"Very well." Meesei responded. "I do agree that it is more important to ensure our own safety. With how she has behaved so far, I doubt she is truly an agent of the enemy, but even so, we should attempt to pursue as soon as we have recovered sufficiently. She should not be allowed to escape justice. As soon as I have that ring, I will be able to track her, as long as she has not ran too far away by that point. Although, there is the possibility that we will only find a corpse. I will not say it is impossible to remove that collar without me, but it would require a very experienced enchanter, and considerable time to study it, neither of which she is going to have by tomorrow. If she ran out in lycan form, then she also has no clothing to combat the weather, unless...she could run for the equipment and supplies we left behind. If that is the case, then we can only hope she does not attempt to find the ring as well. I never told her it existed or that it was needed to activate the enchantment from a distance, much less that it could be used to track her."

As they had been speaking, Meesei had managed to at least stabilize the patient she had been working on. His fate was still uncertain, but his chances were better than they had been. "As for the matter of succession, if you wish to speak in confidence, then we can go somewhere else for a short time, but I would like to return here as soon as possible." She said as she stood up, motioning for the others to follow. Given the current state of disorder that the clan was in, there were likely more rooms vacant than usual, but even so, Meesei still began to speak as soon as they were alone in the hallways.

"Vera, Oswall, the responsibilities of the Alpha will fall to one of you. I have been judging all of your actions so far through the crisis we have faced, but first I would like to hear your own opinions on yourselves. Do either of you believe yourself to be the most qualified?" Meesei asked.