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It was a far cry from any of their homes; her barely remembered place of birth, either of Glaciem's packlands or even Tortuga. It was so different. Not good or bad, just different. Ocena didn't bother trying to get used to it, though. They would be moving on soon enough, she was sure. And maybe that was a pessimistic way to view things, but wasn't she allowed to be a little pessimistic, every now and again? She would get over it soon enough, she was sure. Ocena had never been one to stay in funks for long. Indeed, the last one had been after the volcano's eruption. It had been Gargoyle and Frisk who dragged her out of it, who had reminded Ocena of her typical happiness.

The petite female twitched her ears idly as she examined her surroundings. Different. All too different for her tastes. But perhaps, given time, she would get used to them, like her fellow packmates - or rogues now, she figured, for they were landless, if not lawless - seemed to have. The crystalline sand was pretty enough, though sand had never been her favorite thing. It was too hard to get out of fur. And the waters were pretty, if frigid. They reminded her of Thane, the strange wolf that she had seen swimming so long ago. Perhaps one of her packmates would also think swimming was a grand idea, though Ocena herself planned on staying far away from the waters.

Her stomach was heavy, all too heavy for such silly things as swimming. Instead, with a serene twitch of her tail, the marbled creature turned and padded away from the waters and padded towards the black stones that ringed the beach. Beneath one of the larger ones, the dainty female curled carefully around her distended stomach and waved her tail easily against the earth, ears pricked for any sounds of her mate. He was the one that she was most worried about, now that they had packed up and left their home behind for the umpteenth time. She had not seen him or her children as much as she would have liked since their moving, and perhaps it was time to remedy that.

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