Dawnlark Plains Nightmare that follows you home

it was the scream that had her slip away from the scent she'd been trailing and make haste back to its source, finding there already Pema and a frantic Aliac. She hadn't gotten especially close to the latter, she realized, but it was easy to see just how unnerved she was; fear coursed from her in waves. 

she drew up alongside Pema, eyes flashing as she scanned the woman for injuries, finding none especially worrying, and none that seemed committed by fangs or claws. she latched onto the girl's words quickly, and was quick to offer her own sharp question.  "the marsh. do you think he's a threat?"  it was none too far from their territory, and she would like to know in advance if whoever the girl had encountered would take it upon himself to make an appearance at their borders; or invite himself inside them as had so many already.