walled off

Corbie's loop had taken her north on the last leg of her journey. Soon she would be returning to the plains and her sheep, and begin the arduous lamb watch. She thought that the freedom and the easy ability to speak with others, whenever she wished to seek them out, would have made her reluctant to return to the confinement of being a shepherd, but she found that she was ready to go back. She did wish now as she never had before that there were others like her who would want to live as she did, with her, rather than just her alone. She did love Tam like she loved a brother, but the collie was a dog, not a wolf, and it wasn't quite the same. There was Ayar now, too, but as much as she was enjoying the kinkajou's companionship on this journey she, too, was a species with a highly different focus than the social drive of a wolf. As she and Ayar basked together in the winter sun atop a low part of the ruined wall, she dreamed and planned things she'd never considered before this journey had awoken the hunger in her.