Blacktail Deer Plateau Check my vital signs

slight powerplay..

with osprey's pregnancy stirring animosity among the pack, lasher had not thought long upon his conversation with dante. yet, as the thread of the moon-haunted man's scent wended its way into his nostrils, nervousness filled him. lifting from where he had playfully pinned casmir to the ground at the rendezvous site, and glanced briefly into the other's eyes.

with blue willow there to tend them, he was free to suggest silently a slow trek down the path leading past the site, heart thrumming wildly in his chest. he did not feel free to glance at dante -- not yet.