Everything was new. Perhaps even too new for Lovetta's liking, and she was a cat prone to liking change. She considered herself an intellectual, (though whatever that even meant in a place like the league was anyone's guess), and given that view of herself she believed it was only right to support progress. On top of that, she figured that things changing had to mean things were progressing. Yet, with everything happening so fast she feared, as surely other around her also did, that such unstable ground was the kind of situation ripe for trouble. This wasn't the first time she had considered this, but it hit her hard for the first time when it took her a full good minute to realize that the cat in front of her was her new Warden. With slight embarrassment she gave a half-dip of her head in respectful greeting, though it lacked a considerable amount of spirit. None of the cats in power felt like the had authority yet. None of them had built rapport. Their proxies were new, their pathologist basically a foreigner. Heck, even their Nemesis had only served a short time as Warden, and it was jarring to slip right from the golden bloodline that had ruled their group and brought them into essentially a new renaissance to another cat who didn't share the bengal pelt that for so long had been the league's definition of royalty.

Of course, it was too much to articulate. Rather, it manifested as something hanging over the back and forth of every day life, like thick clouds hazing over sunlight or like a heavy quilt smothering a child. It was a suffocating feeling rather than a thought, one that was difficult to describe beyond the facts that created it, and for that reason made even more unsettling. However, even if she could have found a way to put it into words, the last cat she would have admitted these rather treasonous sentiment to was their new Warden. Instead, through the winter-thick fur of the squirrel she managed to mutter out a sound of affirmation to Aconite's question. "Yeah, it's been going fairly well recently. One thing here you can't complain about is prey, it's pretty abundant." She said after putting down her prey so she could form together an actual sentence.