Lost And Found {AW}

Cascade didn't often venture up this way. Truth be told she didn't often venture out of pack lands at all these days, even before summer had come and brought her heat cycle again. She'd been gripped by a strange feeling, equal parts exhaustion and restlessness, and had made no effort to socialize with any of the other Imperium wolves though it usually soothed her boredom. She hadn't even seen Valentine outside of meetings and such in ages. Which was, she admitted, her fault rather than his. He had a large family and an even larger pack to look after, while she certainly could and should be putting more effort into helping him. She was being an awful friend, but remedying that seemed to be beyond the scope of effort she could put into her life. Which made it even stranger for her to be way out here, wandering far from home. She just felt like she was missing something that hadn't been missing before, with no way of finding it because she didn't know what it was.

A momentary relief from the monotony of her own thoughts came in the form of Bass Destruction, sitting beside the lake with a morose slump. A faint smile lifted her lips at the thought of the mischief she could manage here, but the smile faded to nothing. It seemed like too much effort to be herself today. Still, she was here, she was already on a track that would bring her up to him, and she had nothing else to do, so the ebony bitch meandered up beside the pale alpha and dropped her haunches to the damp ground beside him without preamble. "You look like shit," she opened with complete candor, eyeing Bass. He did, too. She couldn't decide if he looked more like he was exhausted, or about to cry, or about to bite something, or all of the above, but he definitely didn't look like his annoyingly goody-goody Boy Scout self, that was for sure.