@Ratio <3 take all the time you need! This is set for around the time Fury would be leaving Blackwater for the Hinterlands!
@Arashi,
@Alduin and
@Halcyon for reference!
The Warmaiden was getting ready to leave Blackwater. She knew where she must go to obtain a safe life for her children. The one place nobody knew she would have been. She gave Arashi the heads up she would be leaving upon The Listener's request, he was free to come with. The Listener had more or less put Halcyon into her paws and told her to take him with her. Alduin was another wolf she told about her voyage. Nobody else would know from her lips.
A coyote pelt covered in Fury's scent was taken in a different direction by a different Druid.
Having her company scout around, Fury took another trail to see who or what was around to either keep an eye on, or steer away from.
Ratio had made it past the prissy female and had found himself along the ocean. It was certainly warmer than the mountains he had bypassed but he wasn't entirely pleased with the sea, either. An avid swimmer, when he had time, Ratio enjoyed the water but the ocean was a different beast. Useless for drink and a deathtrap to swim. Perhaps he would turn around...or move west.
In short, he didn't know where he was going.
In his idle wander, he came across another of the land. He assumed, as he usually did, that they knew more than he about where they were. Maybe the wolf - another male by the look - would have some more information for him on where to go. He changed course to meet the white male, raising his voice a bit to be heard as he approached.
"Where are you going?" he asked, blunt as usual.
Fury paused briefly as a blunt question arose from an approaching male. Her hackles immediately spiking, she growls her own blunt answer.
"None of your business."
Ratio didn't expect the aggressive response, though if he could have heard himself he might have been less surprised. He pulled up short, his own hackles rising. They were right, of course, it was none of his business. Although the longer he looked, the sooner he realized that the wolf was actually female. She was built like a bear, much larger than the males Ratio had met in his lifetime. It didn't ebb his irritation as his eyes grew narrow and dark, a low rumble in his throat.
He couldn't help the physiological reactions, even as logic told him that she was in her right to refuse to tell him.
"Indeed." he growled, ears flattening. He stood there a moment longer, before stepping to the side with a huff, fully intending to continue on his way but not trusting the wolf who was more scar than animal to be at his back.
She watches his own hackles raise, but Fury chooses to only walk past as the brute steps aside.
The nerve of him, she thinks to herself.
With that, Fury would glare at Ratio a final time as she passes, going further down the length of the Bluff with an air of just hunting, rather than an air of travel.
He watched her go, resisting the urge to snap at her flank as she passed. His eyes remained on her for quite a while as she continued on to...wherever she was going.
More and more certainly, Ratio knew where he was going. He had been losing his will to travel since meeting the red-eyed male at the strange boulder. He'd pressed on but the drive was no longer in him.
He glanced out at the open sea, smelling the salt on the breeze, and turned inland.