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Visiting her old home, huh? That must be nice, to be on good terms and close enough to drop in occasionally. If Rue tried to go bakck to visit her family Red Fern Grove, she would be run out with teeth on her heels. 

Rue nodded. "I've heard of a pack that way, in a forest." The mention brought back the memory of her experience several weeks ago, when she overheard that alabaster male recruiting a very naive-sounding silver female. She had wondered about the silver female several times in passing, hoping that she was faring well in her new pack. Sadly, she had seemed like the sort of woman who could be easily taken advantage of-- the kind of woman Rue had been herself, once upon a time. Rue worried for the girl and had been more than a little suspicious of the alabaster male's intentions. 

"I've been meaning to visit there too," she added. "There's someone there I'd like to check in with." If this girl was indeed talking about the same pack from which the alabaster male hailed, at least Rue knew now that the pack wasn't made-up. That made it less likely that the poor silver woman had been lured into some nefarious trap with the promise of pack membership.