10-04-2013, 11:35 PM
Erich address Avery along with Javed and Eva, saying they should talk to the Warder -- a suggestion she will gladly take on -- because they seem the most grown up. That bewilders her a bit, but she doesn't question it. It's Phoebe's reaction to it that raises her eyebrows slightly.
Avery's eyes flick from the Black Fury across the room to the Silent Strider beside her, then back again. The alpha of the Oracles is older by a few years than she is, and the metis who is unspokenly but obviously the alpha of the Falcons is likely younger than both of them by far in simple counting of years, but that's not what seeming grown up is about.
At first she has no intention of mentioning anything, even though it is a comment about she, her packmate, and a kinswoman that is causing the kerfuffle, but when Erich tries to remedy it and then Hector cuts him off, Avery lifts her chin and addresses the room in the same clear, level tone she usually uses. The thread running through it is not tension or even firmness but suggestion. It is a request. Frankly, she speaks up because she is embarrassed. It's distinctly uncomfortable -- at least to someone of Avery's temperament -- to watch one garou get irritated because another garou said something positive about her. A third garou jumping in to try and smooth things over only seems to amplify that sense of embarrassment on Avery's part. Still:
level. Clear. Calm.
"Though compliments to my and my packmate's supposed maturity and extensive vocabularies are certainly flattering," she murmurs, "perhaps we could refocus on establishing the action plan, and privately discuss any intended or perceived insult to others present when we have formally concluded?"
Avery's eyes flick from the Black Fury across the room to the Silent Strider beside her, then back again. The alpha of the Oracles is older by a few years than she is, and the metis who is unspokenly but obviously the alpha of the Falcons is likely younger than both of them by far in simple counting of years, but that's not what seeming grown up is about.
At first she has no intention of mentioning anything, even though it is a comment about she, her packmate, and a kinswoman that is causing the kerfuffle, but when Erich tries to remedy it and then Hector cuts him off, Avery lifts her chin and addresses the room in the same clear, level tone she usually uses. The thread running through it is not tension or even firmness but suggestion. It is a request. Frankly, she speaks up because she is embarrassed. It's distinctly uncomfortable -- at least to someone of Avery's temperament -- to watch one garou get irritated because another garou said something positive about her. A third garou jumping in to try and smooth things over only seems to amplify that sense of embarrassment on Avery's part. Still:
level. Clear. Calm.
"Though compliments to my and my packmate's supposed maturity and extensive vocabularies are certainly flattering," she murmurs, "perhaps we could refocus on establishing the action plan, and privately discuss any intended or perceived insult to others present when we have formally concluded?"
my whole life is thunder.