Perhaps We're Not Alone

The female would give a sigh, moving along at a slow pace. She kept, every so often, scenting the air for the silver male... Kept checking to see if ANY male was following her at this point. The other male she met at Mount Volkan... She still felt uncertain of him. The femme was debating about possibly joining a pack... Seeking assistance that way... Though her heart was against it. Even if she felt she could not return to ?owyn and Birch right now she didn?t want to actually pledge her loyalty to some other alpha. ?o and Birch, as well as their children, were as close to family as she had here in Alacritia. She was still loyal to them... Just uncertain if that male might come around Fontamo Bay looking for her again. No... For now she had to keep on the move... Even if it wasn?t so good considering her condition.

Short rests, longer only to sleep, and hunting small game was all she had been able to do. She had taken, her heat scent having faded as the season turned to winter. She worried what would become of the pups that now grew inside of her belly... If any of them would be able to survive the winter. The season was harsh... She was without her herbs... Without the aid of another wolf to help her defend the den and watch over the little ones when she needed to hunt... Or to hunt for her when she got too heavily pregnant to hunt at all. A deep sigh would leave her maw.

Some herbs seemed to have once grown here... But the frost and dusting of snow that had fallen seemed to have killed most of them off. A deep sigh would leave her as she pressed on. There were a couple scents here, other loners she presumed... And older scents... A former packland. But the border scents were stale. It had been abandoned or the territories changed when a new alpha took over. All the same it wasn?t her concern... She needed to find somewhere to rest a while... And then press on again. Weary paws would lead her to a large tree, rotting at the bottom and part of it already dug out by some creature or another. The small female would squeeze her way inside, laying down on the earth. Teal-green eyes would gaze outward at the world for a moment, taking a few sniffs of the air to assure herself nothing was around before closing them, though her ears were still perked to catch the sound of any strangers that dared to near.




"Speech"

"Settle down." Said my heart.

...and so here it was I would settle down.