Porcupine Ridge keep it in your pants, son

Farstep's patrol would bring him face-to-face with Capriccio eventually, the pair of them unwittingly travelling opposite ways around the border, but not before the Alpha female discovered Taggarik and an unknown female. Farstep lagged behind, and spotted Saghani just as Capriccio was speaking to the Alpha male. The tawny wolf's ears and tail shot up and he approached at a canter, ready to intercept Saghani at the borders, but when Capriccio materialized and he caught sight of Taggarik in the strange wolf's vicinity, he slowed.

Yet he did not meander away, as he ordinarily would have, for Saghani's confident posture and seeming familiarity with the Alpha male gave him pause and tickled him in all the wrong ways. He slowed as he approached, circling around the dark-haired Alpha male to stand somewhat nearer to Capriccio. His blue eyes were on Saghani, however, and his lip twitched with displeasure at her display. It ought to have been Terich-mir who stood amongst the leading pair to intercept this woman and to find fault in her actions, as it was the right of the leaders and not their subordinates to intervene in border behaviour, but Farstep's presence and the fact that he stopped to watch rather than moving along told a lot about his opinion on the pack's current Beta male. That he remained suggested he felt himself entitled to be part of this decision, once he puzzled out exactly what was happening.

He didn't make a sound, and his tail stirred only once as he settled into the tension of the moment. His eyes turned slowly to Capriccio, curious.