Briar walked along the edge of the pack's territory as she continued on with a patrol along side Grimshaw. They were still getting to know each other, but since they were partnered together through the end of the season for training she wanted to put in the best effort she could in doing that. She had experienced her own fair share of lack of instruction from the wolves that she had expected to teach and train her and she wouldn't allow herself to add to that problem even if she was set to leave once summer rolled around. Her day typically consisted of doing a patrol and then going to the training field to run through some exercises and drills anyway so it was easy for her to incorporate him into her usual routine.

However, it seemed like the normal run of things would be cut short or at lest disrupted as she caught the distinct scent of a bear much too close to the border for her liking. Her steps slowed with a frown, turquoise eyes scanning the lands outside the border. "Do you smell that? It seems like it's been here recently..." She continued on along the border a little ways more, moving more cautiously now, until she realized that the bear's scent didn't just follow the border but crossed it into the plains. Worry twisted her stomach. She knew the youngest pups of the pack weren't out and about just yet and Aslatiel's children had left with her, but with Naiche's death from a bear still so recent it didn't sit well with her. "We better find it quick," she muttered before turning away from the border to follow the trail into the pack lands to hunt down their intruder.

"Briar Fatalis"

Grim was intrigued by Briar and her adoration for his adoptive brother, though found little time to get to know her. He hardly knew his brother, but he was wasting resources if he wasn't using his girlfriend to learn more about him. Things he should already know, of course, but that was beside the point. When they had set off to patrol along the edge of the territory, he hadn't expected such a large predator to venture so close to the packs borders. With the infection, he wondered if it woke the bear from it's hibernation early and now it was left to wander the world confused and draining goo. Grimshaw felt for the bear, but it was a danger that couldn't be risked. It needed to be eradicated.

He nodded simply to her words, agreeing once that he had found the scent and a second time that they needed to find it quickly. He trailed off after her, coming up alongside her with some distance between them to scope a wider path. The bear was close, but not in their sight range. Grimshaw pointed his nose towards the ground to track it's scent as he moved, occasionally lifting his head to check for Briar or any bears.

"Speech."

Briar stalked into the plains with Grim, turquoise eyes peeled for any sign of the bear they were tracking. They put a bit of distance between them so that they could sweep a wider path and cover ground more quickly. The faster they found this bear and were able to chase it off the better. Following the scent trail that broke up occasionally in the waving grasses, she finally spotted the back of the large, brown, shaggy bear. It's head was down, apparently devouring some carcass someone had left behind after butchering it. She caught Grim's attention and nodded toward the bear before beginning to circle around so she could get around to the front of it, leaving Grim to go in from the back or sides.

As she half way expected, the bear was covered in crystals, half of its face disfigured with them. When she got around into its line of sight it looked at her and didn't seem to register her presence for a second. Its one good eye looked dazed and it just kept eating off of the already pretty picked over deer carcass. She glanced past it to Grim with a bit of a conflicted glance. Part of her actually felt bad for the poor thing. She half way just wanted to leave it be or maybe at least put it out of its misery, but she supposed they were better off just chasing it off of the territory. The bear finally realized she was there after a few moments and lifted its head, staggering a bit as it roared at her, gross glowing goo dribbling from its mouth.

"Briar Fatalis"