The leader watched with a sad eye as the woman she viewed as her own daughter crumbled before her paws. Forcing herself to stay planted where she was, Nina inhaled sharply and painfully rooting her claws into the ground to reassert her state of mind. She could not fully help Ashanti make the decision, it was time that the mother start letting her wolves decide things for herself. She was much older than a majority of them and would not be there for them all one day. She clamped her jaws together, listening to the uncomfortable silence that had settled among the two. Finally when Ashanti spoke, the golden brown alpha gave a start, her single eye wide in shock as she shook her head silently. Her words were not true...but Nina heard the underlying tones in the girl's voice. After all she had been through Nina had not expected her to go through such a deep state of madness now. Perhaps when the monster had first claimed her and raped her, this would have been normal, but surrounded by the love and affections that Nina had seen many pack mates give her, she was shocked that this was happening. She is going insane, a familiar voice hissed in her brain, you didn't do well enough.

The mother watched as the girl walked away from her, and Nina had to bite her cheek from calling out to the fallen girl, a deep pit of sadness in her heart. She had done everything in her power to prevent this from happening to the girl. She had showered her with love and comfort and made sure that she was as happy as she could be in her living environments, but it seemed that everything she could give would never be good enough, ever. That was a lesson she should have learned a long time ago. Sighing, she looked down at the snowy ground beneath her paws and closed her eyes and breathed out a prayer, ”Please...please protect my schatzi. She is like a daughter to me and I don't know what I would do if she lost her mind too....I can't help everyone all the time...so please, guide me and help me upon the right path onto which would help her.” Bowing her head as she said this, she backed away from the clearing and let her body dissolve into the shadows.