Who Can Stand?

Chrysanthos nodded sympathetically. "I haven't either. I've heard stories about them and a disaster that happened in my homeland several generations before my birth." It was one of those tales that was getting old enough that some thought it might be nothing more than fantasy bu to him it was fact. After living through his own experience with volcanic eruption he could only believe the stories more. "I agree, it would be a shame if we immediately started attacking each other but its hard to say. There are some pretty selfish and dangerous packs out there." Namely the Abraxas came to his mind. They'd be tucked away mostly safe in Auster and he quietly hoped that the course of the ashfall and eruption would keep them down in Auster where they belonged.

"I was just collecting some elderberry bark. With winter here I'm running out of the usual creen herbs I would normally collect. What about yourself?"