STAKING MY CLAIM

She had joined a pack on her own accord, a pretty big deal for the freedom-loving, authority-denouncing anarchist flower child that she was. She'd received a rank, even if it had been merely that of a messenger. She had even attended a meeting called with the intention of fight training, though it had never gotten off the ground since only she and one other guy showed up. Everything had gone steadily downhill from there. Both the wolves she'd known as leaders of the pack - the elder who'd passed it to the younger at her first meeting - had seemed to simply vanish. The pack had sat and stagnated and it was boring and exemplified one of the reasons she so disliked authority. To put so much effort and trust into something that so easily let you down... criminal, really. But when she'd cut her losses and returned to where her brother had left them, and where she'd escaped before her sister could turn on her, it was to find no trace of either of them or her brother's slave. Nowhere she'd hunted had she found them.

Cascade's whole reason for being here was in turmoil.

So when the call came from the pack lands she'd recently vacated, she'd gone to investigate for a lack of any other option presenting itself. Mismatched eyes had slipped calmly over the group as she approached, seeing at first little of interest. There, the woman who called, that was the one who'd been lead warrior. She must have decided to claim the pack after the Finnvi woman's disappearance, and why not? It wasn't like the Finnvis were using it anymore, and she couldn't be any worse than any other possible claimants. Speaking of, it would be interesting to see if anyone tried to deny her that claim. It could be a real blood bath if enough tried for it, and a delicate smile graced her muzzle at the thought. That brown-and-white male she didn't know, but nothing about him really caught her attention either. There, that wolf was the black male who had been at the meeting, now with a fresh scar where his eye had been. Wonder what had happened there? And there, that was the big, big male who had spoken up so boldly during the meeting about the would-be co-alpha. Who was he approaching so angrily this time?

Her eyes followed his to Cataleya, and the wolf before her, and Cascade's breath caught in a joyful yelp as she bounded forward. "Brotherrrrr!" came her sing-song call. She stopped her breakneck motion a bit away and crept forward submissively, her gold-and-purple eyes gleaming gleefully. "Oh brother I missed you!" She made to lick his muzzle but then froze, tongue still poking out, as his appearance truly registered for the first time. She stared at him in confusion for a moment before sucking her tongue back in and straightening. "You are not Neios," she stated the obvious, her posture and tone stiff.