It was night when she arrived at the view.

The stars shone brightly above her, twinkling within their dark realm.  As she walked she enjoyed the cool touch of stone beneath her paws and the wind ruffling her coat.  It was cold out tonight, as winter approached and a soft blanket of snow fell from the heavens, but while Odie felt the chill it didn't bother her too much with everything else that was currently on her mind.

She knew she should be tired, but couldn't bring herself to sleep just yet with all the anderline pulsing through her.  She could imagine her Mother and Father along with her younger siblings asleep together and the thought brought warm feelings to her heart.  Though she dearly hoped that neither her Father or Mother lay awake nervous for her now that she was on her own, on her journey to Silvertip

For a while longer she wandered alone, a soft breeze rustling through her pelt when the sound of another made her turn.  For a moment she wondered if this was Steady, becaue after all while she couldn't point him out specifically anymore unless directed or by a lucky guess, she remembered his fur was black, but soon enough she realized that this was not Steady, but a female with a black coat.

"Hi," she greeted in turn, eyeing the female curiously.  "Do you live around here?"  She decided to ask, just for precations.  Perhaps while this was not Steady, she could still be a Silvertip wolf.  After all her smell... the starting to fade smell of her pack smell vaguely familiar, like that Silvertip male... but it was different all the same so who knew.

Well, she wasn't a Silvertip wolf... still Odie remained on alert just in case.  She found herself curious though as to what this message was.  What would drive Valette, as she called herself, to travel to another pack to exchange a message.  Well perhaps what she doing wasn't all that different.

"I'm headed to Silvertip mountain," she replied in turn with a shrug, "for some unfinished bussiness."  For a moment she paused.  "I'm Odette by the way, it's nice to meet you Valette."  Then she watched the Valette to gauge her reaction.

Silvertip had moved.  Odie curled almost curled her lip at the sound of this.  Steady had broken that pack, what her parents had built seemed to be gone now completely.  Steady had killed it.  While that was obviously not the whole story, that was what Odette thought and what she would believe.

She wanted to know where Steady had relocated the pack.  She wanted to find him and make him pay and in order to do that she would lie if she had to.  She wanted to find him and make him feel her pain.

"Oh... that's really to bad to hear."  She gave a small hesitant pause.  "I must say though that I am curious to hear where they relocated to."  She remarked rather casually.  "I mean I wanted to talk to their Alpha... Steady," it took her much effort to state his name and title without any angered effect, but she needed to know where he was and needed a pathway paved for her to find him.  It suddenly felt like the only way.

Valette was Steady's Beta.

She took a few shocked steps back at this news, surprise lit brightly in her eyes.  She was with him, steady... she was actually with him, they had become Easthollow.  She wanted to attack Valette, hurt her, make Steady feel her pain... she was desperate, but before she could do anything Valette stated she had not been there during the famine, which was probably why she was with him.  Maybe she didn't know!  Maybe there was still hope for her to turn Valette against him... and then there was Adeline.  Was her sister still there?  For a moment a sprinkle of hope brightened in within her... but then fear.  Did Adeline know?

"I bet he never told you what he did to me."  She remarked, her lips curling back not in anger to towards Valette but towards Steady.  "I bet he never told you how he broke apart everything I had left at Silvertip... he's the reason for my pain Valette, he's the reason I know none of my family anymore.  He's the reason for my nightmares of what happened.  He's the reason why I had to leave.  He's evil and I bet he's told you nothing."

Valette's words made her sound like she was blind to Odie.  Still a small part of her understood, once she had been in the same place... but when Steady had done what he did, she had saw him for who he really was.  A ruthless cannibal.

"He ate my Mom," she began, with a shudder at the memory.  "Then asked other to join in, he brought me and my brother... Stoic... but for some reason Adeline just wasn't there.  Anyways upon arriving I saw my Mother... dead and... and then that monster began to eat her and asked others to join him."  She tensed.  "It was terrifying... then Steady..." she hissed out his name between clenched teeth, "Steady offered me and my Brother a piece, torn away from her flesh," for a few moments she paused.  "Stoic was the first to run... I haven't seen him since then... I don't even know whether he's dead or alive.  I was the second to run... I ran far far away from that place, away from the monsters that reside there."  For a moment her eyes lifted to gauge Valette's reaction before contiuning.  "It was already bad enough, because a little while before that my other brother Solemn passed... we'd already expierence one death... I don't think cannibalism should have been the answer for another," she paused her breath shaky, "if you don't belive me though Valette, you just wait and watch, because one day Steady will show you who he really is just like he showed me... I once loved him as his niece, but now he is nothing to me."  She eyed Valette, "I'm just warning you."

She still apeared to not get it and although Odie tried to make herself understand from Valette point of veiw from not being there, a deep anger still burned in her and a guilty part of her hoped that Valette would find out the hard way if she would not understand.  If she continued to be blind and defend Steady.

"You don't know anything Valette... you have no proof of what really went through Steady's mind that day, so how do you know he wouldn't lie to you?"  She paused for a moment, "or what?  Are you special now?"  She retorted sharply.  "And if you tell him anything about me... you tell him that it should've been him.  It should've been him."  Then she swiftly pulled away and padded off, wanting no more to do with with Valette.