"Well, I don't know anything about all of that. Uncle Lorag doesn't talk about those kinds of things very much." Julan answered, lightly shrugging. "I just know that none of that should make you think you can't be happy here. I mean, you're not going to be with your mother forever, right? I know when me and my brother grow up, we're not just going to be with our parents all the time. We'll be working on our own joining other packs, having families of our own; those kinds of things. We can still be around, we don't have to leave them or anything, but...I know that children do have to grow up and have lives of their own. Don't you do it the same way in the city? You'll have to have your own life too, and even if your mother got kicked out, that doesn't mean you can't live here. Or in another clan. And it probably wouldn't be hard to visit and stay close with her, with the propylon chambers. You know, teleporting."

Julan was worried that he was not wording his advice properly, or that there was more he could say, but it was also true that Narsi was acting a fair bit differently than she had been thusfar. She was, at least to some extent, opening up to him. "So...you don't have to act like an outsider. You can just let yourself enjoy being here And besides, if you really want to beat up Lorag, then you're going to be training here for a [i]very[/i] long time." 

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"I...appreciate that." Ahnasha answered, though with the long breath she let out and her emotionless tone, it was hard to tell if she was being genuine. "But I wasn't lying about them being busy. They weren't starting their day quite as...early as I might have implied, but now that I've come all the way out here and we took our time eating our breakfast, there probably isn't enough time to catch up with them. We're just going to have to deal with this in the long term. Maybe we'll have time before the invasion to squeeze in a short visit to Leyawiin."

Ahnasha sighed, not looking particularly hopeful. "But I guess I did ask you to think on it, so...what are these ideas?"