Oracle froze then straightened herself to her full height her fur puffing out a little with surprise she had not expected a stranger. Instantly her mind went back to the den back to merci and knight and Galahad maybe she should have told someone where she was going maybe she shouldn't have given him the slip. She had a bad feeling about the dame but the women had done nothing but approach her and ask her name, she should treat this stranger kindly but still it was well know that discretion was the better part of valour ?I'm Oracle,? she replied trying to keep the slight shake of fear from her voice, ?I was looking for my sister, have you seen her??the girl was a stranger but still she could not discount the chance that she had seen the missing girl, after all she had come from outside the border a place where she herself had never visited, ? she wandered off.?
the dame was getting closer and oracle took a few slow steps back her feet sunk a little into the deeper snow by the paths edge but she would not sink as much as a full grown wolf, she was lighter. Oracles Golden eyes scanned the dame, she was almost as tall as the lass, she could thank her fathers genes for that, though the dames coat was white and grey where hers was black and brown ?what?s your name? I told you mine so its only fair, and what are YOU doing out here?? Oracle asked, despite the aura around the girl which made the pups throat itch and her hair rise she was still curious this was the first outsider she had ever met everyone else had been either related or belonged to the same pack as her since before her birth. ?are you lost? do you want to come in and meat aunt Merci? I'm sure she could help you.?
she still stood tense and cautious but her neck stretched out in curiosity and for the first time she sniffed the air around the dame. She did not smell of a pack but there was the scent of others on her other pups? She wasn't sure still learning how to define different scents it could just as easily been the smell of half a dozen squirrels.
