"He can do wrong," he says, with a slight shrug. "He tried to hunt me down. He refused to listen to me, to Shadowmaru. He isn't perfect."

It was meant to be reassuring. That the Brave Leader wasn't exactly a paragon of perfection, as far as Kagerou saw. Not a bad thing -- he hadn't meant it to be one. He was trying.

That counted, right?

"Does he think those things about you?"