Blacktail Deer Plateau Bufferzone

Yeah... even Osprey had learned that there was no way of starting an entirely new life and be a different self starting from tomorrow. Having never suffered from low self-esteem or an idea that she was not good enough (maybe this thought surfaced now more often than before), she had given only few tries in improving her way of living. Even then, when the change had been major (such as her leaving her birth pack), the true essence that defined her had always come along. She was Osprey no matter the location.

And, probably, Burke was Burke, but circumstances were that had shaped and formed him into what he had been and what he was now. A good thing that he did not boast for being a very different man - after revealing an important part of his story - he seemed to have become more modest. She had somehow assumed that brutes like him were blunt about their emotions. Yet this fellow - straightforward, a bit dense, rude and with an odd sense of humor at first glance - turned out to have not only intellect, but... "Who would have thought that brutes like you have a heart too," she teased him lightly with a notion that she would not have expected something like that before. "Pretty good at hiding that too."