Let The Wind Eavesdrop

He curled his lip at her inching closer. She took the hint and sighed sitting where she ended up. Just barely touching the line in the dirt.
He didn't say anything to her about her news, he called the others to gather and weigh in though. She chewed on her cheek as his howl ended, should the rest of the pack really see him in this state?

Yara arrived, she looked rested, a little leaner than before. Ignita nodded a thankful greeting then turned as Gossamer arrived. She gave them news of big bears in the woods. She nodded her head to each member that gathered as well. Her expression was stoic and ready.

"That's unfortunate. I know we burned the first tree but the blight spread too far before we noticed. I've matched the meat in the storeroom to the samples gathered from the first prey victim. It had the same tang that I've noticed we'd been getting from the smokehouse. The blight has been running rampant in the prey for a while now. Long enough that our reserves are all blighted meat. I have Vesper working to clear the storerooms now and burn the blighted products. That means the entire pack has been exposed to the blight already." She glanced at Basilisk, offering him an opportunity to add to the news before pressing on.

"We need to gather everyone out of the woods and I think we need to burn it all through. We should burn it so that those bears or any other blighted prey avoid the Col." She glanced again at the Warlord, "I don't think we can save the woods. We might need to change the territory borders away from it." She glanced at Yara, the Songbird had experience with plagues, would she concur?
"Does anyone have any other ideas?" She asked the gathering throng.