Safe

Shuule nodded firmly, reaching out to grab her friend's hand through their oversized jackets.

"We will. We can't just yet, but we will, I promise."

She probably should not have been making such bold promises, the fox girl thought to herself. But if they made it out of the winter alive, they could try. There wasn't any sense in living without seeking revenge on.... someone. Any one of the many people who had wronged all of them.

Shuule's entire village for hurting her, her family.

Everyone who made Set and the snakes feel like they couldn't belong, or hunted them down for their skins as though they weren't beastmen themselves.

Everyone who made glances behind Anna's back because she was born rootless.

Edgar for forcing Anna into taking Arthur as a spouse for bloodlines.

Everyone who made the plant eaters stay in the fields as laborers instead of treating them as equals.

The cats for making the eagles second class in their army.