struggling down the slope
Whether or not she could sort out her feelings towards Noah between regular, plain ol' pack-bonded friendship and the apparently more intense (sometimes, sometimes not, which only made things all the more confusing!) attachments that they'd just learned about - great! another metric to misappro-measure herself by! - wasn't important.
Whether or not she could wrangle her feelings between positive, peaceful love and negative, niggling jealousy was the real problem.
Was she just pressuring herself to look at him the same way she did Mio, or Eunie, or even Lanz and Taion?
They all had to be equal, the perfect Ouroboros ring.