A thousand silhouettes

I haven't seen @Lupa for a while so I don't know where they are (didn't see them on the absence/scarcity lists either?), so I'll go ahead and reply again myself.

Dante arrived on the scene and this time, it was the wolf from the Caldera who spoke first. Mordecai watched her, noting with the difficulty that she tried to adhere to the social laws of their kind. She was pretty banged up, for all intensive purposes and in turn, tossing her back into the wilderness was not high on his list of things to do. But higher than that was the respect that he held for his friend, and his attention swiveled around to him.

"She wanted to escort them further in when I came across them. I told her it was better that we bring you in on this," Mordecai went to explain, gesturing to Lupa. He had made the call to rein Dante in and would answer for it. "Plus, there's safety in numbers if those wolves are lingering nearby." He wanted to believe that the wolves from the Woods would have given up their pursuit, but it was also hard to say. Mordecai didn't know enough about them to make that sort of call, though in matter of days he would.

Perhaps overstepping himself a bit, he prompted Dante: "We have a healer here, don't we?"