Why was her voice so... not harsh? It made Sunshine nervous and he fidgeted a little as they walked, shooting an anxious glance at Southpaw. Was she holding it in for later? Was she just going to torture them like this and explode later? After the day he had he wondered if she had some special ability to blow cats up or read their minds or something? That would be terrifying and he wanted nothing to do with it.

"You'll be on Auxiliary duties then, until your shoulder is properly healed. I'll have you helping Juliet make and rebuild the traps for the mercenaries." Southpaw wasn't getting an option, but honestly, once she realized what the duties entailed, and the fact that she got to sit around and tinker with vines all day for her food instead of run around until she was ready to throw up, Shule suspected she would be significantly more compliant. The white pawed Commander lapsed into silence again for a long moment. "Next time, you warn me before you try to go to SunClan. You could have gotten yourself or Sunshine seriously hurt, if you met anyone less forgiving than your brother Hakoda. What would you have done, if he got injured or killed by SunClan on your account?"

"You don't know them as well as you think you do, Southpaw." Shule answered grimly. "I've known them since before the Sun God came to be. Did your father, Dusky, ever tell you how he came to join SunClan in the first place?" There was almost a hesitance there, and a dark look in the Commander's eyes that suggested she had every reason to distrust the clan Southpaw had been born to. "How much do you know about SunClan, from the time they began to follow the Sun God, to now?"

"Yeah, and Bravewolf is quite busy these days." Shule answered knowingly, though she hadn't exactly told Sunshine what was going on with his uncle Damek, so the young tom would likely be quite confused, though Southpaw would probably grasp that Commander Shule understood. "What do you think of Bloody? I'm suspecting your father hid a lot of from you, and you probably don't even know why Dusky was thrown into the Regime's Bootcamp, do you."

"I'm sure that's what Soaringlight would like to think." Shule sighed, not necessarily surprised. "Your dad cares about Bloody, and while that's admirable, Dusky let people get hurt and turned a blind eye to what Bloody did. If you decide not to believe anything I tell you, ask Lex, he's... your grandfather, Dusky's father, despite not being Dusky's blood. But I'll get to that. When Bloodystar came to power, he did so by injuring Littlestar, and imprisoning her, taking her kits for himself. He justified it because Littlestar had killed the Sun God shortly before. Because the Sun God had forced a Soothsayer to become pregnant against her will, cursed her, and the Sun God let her kits die. I dislike Littlestar, but she did the right thing, in killing that Sun God. He's not the same as the one you know, not in the slightest. Bloody did many things in his leadership, including imprisoning Mountainsound, your grandmother, because she stood up to him. Brilliance here, in the Regime, came to us with all her limbs broken and more. She tried to kill Bloodystar, because he tried to force her into marriage against her will, and constantly told her it was the Sun God's will. Your father may like Bloody, but very few others would agree."

"I'm not lying. That's why I told you to ask Lex. You could even go ask Mountainsound, she wouldn't lie for me, and she still lives in SunClan. But Bloody's reign is not the wildest part of this, Southpaw. Not by far. Anything he did, Foxstar did a hundred times worse. There's a reason some have used her as a warning tale to kits like you." Shule answered grimly. Southpaw could think what she wanted, but Commander Shule certainly seemed serious enough about it. "You could probably just ask your mother, for that matter. She's more likely to tell you the truth than simply give Dusky's happy go lucky version of events."

"DayClan doesn't tend to listen to tyrants so much." Shule answered. "That's the only reason it would be safer, but I'd agree that it isn't safe either, I don't particularly trust Glowstar either."

The mostly black cadet sat on the sidelines, eyes wide and feeling stunned. Southpaw had guts. He had to give her that much at least. He anxiously locked the white patch on his chest nervously. Everything they were saying about sunclan seemed interesting and he was trying hard to follow along... but it really went over the young cat's head for the most part. He was not really raised in a politically charged environment and did not pay as much attention to those kinds of things as he probably should. "Southpaw," he tried to whisper nervously, knowing it was really no use to say anything to her.

She was so stubborn. It made him nervous. Sunshine shuffled his paws. Why did she have to argue with everything Shule said? It was so weird. "Is it really worth arguing over?" The Tom cat preferred to pick his battles and this didn't seem like the right hill to die on. What did she get out of all this anyway? He just didn't understand. He shot an anxious glance at Shule.