“Wolves are naturally pack animals. They desire to hunt together and have strict hierarchies associated with them. But at the same time paradoxically they have a key phrase attached to them. The phrase lone wolf. With just two words a person has been conjured into your head. That specific type.” 

“And yet the phrase comes from such a more saddening place. It comes from a place of desperation. The lone wolf having to hide from their original pack most of all for survival. With the end goal trying to attach themselves to a new pack. With that do you not see the lone world being a more pitiable figure?” 

“You know, let’s take our own little lone wolf as an example. Drewett, exiled from his former pack and in a desperate bid for his own head ran for sanctuary wherever he could. So instead of starving and dying in the middle of the street we gave you a hand after we learned that you were able to be trusted. And it was all the better for everyone as in the end you began to thrive for your choices.”

“I never had an issue with you joining. I had an issue with your thriving. You went from a starved but loyal dog under the thumb of Zeus to an excitable dog who leapt at every chance you got. Feasting over and over again until you made the mistake every lone wolf is doomed to make.” 

“You forgot your place in the hierarchy” 

“So eager to push people’s trust, so eager to prove yourself. You paid no mind to who you had to step over to make your point. Once or twice that would’ve been brushed off as carelessness. But it’s happened far too many times and it’s time you’ve learned.” 

“I am no opportunity to be jumped at or leapt over.”

“I am the Dragon Princess Wolf Fang Ayame. And most of all I am the Alpha. And I’ve had to deal with many different lone wolves in my time. I’ve had to deal with their sad eyes as they hunger for more. The fire in their eyes as they have something to prove. And there’s a common denominator in all of them.” 

“The moment you set them straight all of that goes away. They learn quickly that I cannot be pushed around, that my word is law. The lone wolf will quickly know their place in another part of the pack. And they will know that there is only one person who may thrive before anyone else in the pack.” 

“And that is the Alpha of the pack.”