Ame hesitated. Of course it would fall to the youngest one in the group to test this woman's loyalties.
"How can I go on only what you've told me when so many people have told me you can't be trusted?" She frowned. Ame-Hedgehog curled into a ball and bristled up at the fox. Again resisting the urge to be sick, Ame-Girl rose to her feet and stared up into Ansel's eyes, searching for any hint of malice.
"Just tell me why you tried to drive Aery insane. And why you tried to kill Rowan. And justify it to me, justify it to my gods, and I will make my judgement then." She clapped her hands over her mouth and forced her breakfast back down into her stomach. In anger she looked at the hedgehog image and visualized herself, her human self, crumpling it into a ball, and instantly that image fractured and she brushed it aside. "And let me contact the others and tell them what you say and have their guidance. It is not only myself, and my gods, that have to deal with the repercussions of whatever decision I make." But she knew that the second request would probably not be honored, even though the first one probably had to be.
Cautiously Ame probed Ansel's mind, searching for any hint of uncertainty, especially questing for any thread of lies.