Run This Town

A long, sweeping stride brought the young Ancora along the border on her solitary patrol. She was still acting as a warrior rather than healer, since the healers had been too busy since the raid to hold training, leaving her without real knowledge in the subject. Solveiga was pregnant with Regulus' pups, so they were down a full-time healer, and Kavdaya was still... well, comatose, which left basically just Paladin, Kalliope, and a partly trained Domari to take care of all of the injured from the raid, some of whom were pretty bad off, as well as monitoring Solveiga's pregnancy and treating the normal injuries and ills of a pack. So instead of making waves over it, Justice was just keeping her mouth shut and trying to be patient.

Her only injuries during the raid had been to her face, so it had been no hardship to take up the slack for more grievously injured fighters so they could rest and heal. She'd have some scarring once her face finally healed, and a notch out of one ear, but she wasn't in any danger of infection from the wounds. Not like the few in the pack who'd been maimed. She had taken up more of the slack taking care of Kavdaya as well to free Paladin up more for his duties as a healer. With Valor kidnapped by their backstabbing cousin, it left very few of the litter left to actually care for their ailing mother now, even though the pack's hunter made sure to keep them supplied with food for her so they didn't have to take the time from their duties to hunt as well.

As she came along the border wall, a fresh scent stopped her dead in her tracks and made her bristle. Not because the scent belonged to a stranger, but because she recognized it all too well. She continued along the wall in a stiff-legged stalk now, until she came upon the familiar form standing on the other side.

"Oh so you come back now?" she spat out without waiting to see if he'd noticed her. "You run away and abandon us when we actually needed you and now that we don't you decide to come crawling back, is that it?"