It seemed the northern stretches of the Teekon were holding fast to their grip on her. She remained, scouting and hunting away her days, seemingly content beneath the summer sunshine and able to bunker down when she needed to. As one wolf, she was hard to notice and she moved across the valleys often, usually cycling through different haunts, almost always on the move from one vantage point to the next.

Jomyo stayed because so far, she could, and she felt close enough to the outskirts of packs to know where to go if and when hard times found her. Not that any motivation like that had come yet, even if she wanted the easy answer on where to end up and find a niche for herself, so a wanderer she stay. As such a thought crossed, she caught herself swinging a little closer to the Sanctuary again. She paused long enough to sniff curiously at the wind from their way.. and of course nothing spoke to her, not from an entire valley and then some away. She moved on, unsure of what the notion was she felt.

Anyway, she turned and jogged her way towards a valley she usually have mediocre luck at. Ahead a way, she thought she saw another wolf perhaps scoping along to do the same.

Protective of herself more than ever before without any other to lean on, she maintained a distance from the stranger, though went closer--enough to let him know she was here too.

In watching for his reaction to her, he greeted with a chuff--so she took that as a favorable enough sign to hazard a few steps closer. Steele, he said he was called, and the scout supposed that suited him quite well after hardly more than a glance. "Nothing in particular, I wander.." she clarified. She was always on the lookout for different things, mainly any that could benefit her in some way, yet she didn't claim any clear-cut goals in these late summer days.

As well as he needed to know yet, she roamed, but she would be unwise to turn down a chance for food when she had no better place to be right now and no guarantee of a meal herself otherwise. "You seen any good trails yet?" she asked, still maintaining a very neutral stance of her own since she felt like she had only just got here. She exhaled a slow sigh, and prepared to shift focus to the possibility of a hunt--and not a solo one for once, too. "I'm Jomyo." she did return before she got any further, and since she had his name too.

She couldn't argue with that. Lapsing into a brief but thoughtful silence, after a short nod of course, Jomyo considered the scope of place. She had passed through before and loitered briefly in heading towards the woods north of here. Her mental maps were very fuzzy, at best --and distracted by the wildflowers at worst. Nevertheless, Jomyo was still eager to cover a little ground (with company, too) and hopefully improve such a notion.

But, she at least knew they had options and she was prepared to work with them. This prospect of a fellow hunter meant a change of tactic for her lately.. but the adaptable scout was already attaching herself well to the idea, and looking forward to their prospects. "Are you from near here?" she asked, curious to see if he knew this place any better than she might. Still, his opinion, and luck if he had it, could only help secure them something good. "What do you think--better odds today if we head towards the mountain," she jerked her nose towards Sleeping Dragon, though she did not have the name for it. All she knew was that it smoldered, but seemed vacant enough at a passing glance. "Or the river?" She shifted her paws more its way, led mainly by her nose, and that following a waterway never hurt her before.

On his elaboration, Jomyo could only quirk a brow over her shoulder to the favorable note for the Sanctuary. "Ah, nice," she remarked, filing such a notion for later--at least Delight's new residence had been a good time for this guy. Well, as a place with Sanctuary in the name implied, it should be.

Jomyo dipped her nose, though her attentions were more on the scenery, and a little less on the intricacies of conversation as they went striding on. "Some wolves from my last pack went there after it dissolved. I went just to check it out a little," she mentioned sort of off-hand but that was as detailed as she was going to get unprompted. She was good with the river as a solid option, although it was far too early to give up on terrestrial prey, so she didn't remark--at least it all sounded promising, and she was thankful to have stumbled across someone useful. "How did you end up at the Sanctuary in the first place?" she asked, if it was not too intrusive to do so. Already she knew his leave was for himself, and it really seemed to be on good terms. She may as well find out what had preceded that once, too.

"Delight.. and Queenie too," she answered after a soft sigh coming when she did lift her head up again. She didn't think any others had gone north.. no scents had hinted at such. "And I met Alarian, but only briefly." she recalled and decided it was worth a mention enough, though the other name he said went over her head.

But she nodded.. respecting the want to travel because it consumed her entire life, so it left her no room to argue there.

When he mentioned herd, her ears twitched forward and this signaled the official whole change of focus. Good, because now their odds were even better so she drifted her path over towards him to test the trail for herself--and sure enough. Her nose quivered eagerly and waved her tail; she kept to her silence, but the encouragement was clear, and she was ready to move forward now with a fresh, tangible direction to go in. The scout started to pick up her pace, and progress this.

If success awaited them, then so be it. Jomyo went on like always: with enough to gain to keep her interested, and little to lose.