Redhawk Caldera I'm an Albatraoz

Well, they certainly had weird names. It was a bit of a trend in the Redleaf-DiSarinno family, though. Almost every wolf was named after a bird. She found it very bizarre and couldn't possibly think of enough birds to name all her family members, so naturally she found the names of Peregrine's children to be strange. Wildfire was the only one that differed, and even then, it wasn't the sort of name she'd expected for a wolf.

When she was asked to wait, she sat down neatly, but every moment alone in Caldera territory made her nervous. At any moment, Fox could've swept by and attacked her just for being there. The fact that Saena was a relative, albeit a reluctant and begrudging one, probably wouldn't have made any difference to the nightmarish version of the Alpha female in Saena's mind, who cared solely about herself. The real Fox might have proven her wrong, but the real Fox didn't appear.

Instead, Peregrine returned with a familiar face in tow. Saena's surprise at seeing Elwood was very conspicuous, but she didn't say much about their joint failure to secure an elk by the lake that day. It was irrelevant, and besides, there were puppies to focus on. She sunk down to her belly, splayed out her legs, but otherwise made no motion toward them, for they all seemed bashful in a way. They were all cute, but Saena's eyes lingered on the red female and the chocolate male the longest, for two very different reasons.

Wildfire looked very much like Fox and, very unfairly, all of Saena's hatred of the mother was subconsciously projected onto the youth. Wildfire was therefore her least favourite solely for being that colour. If she was conscious of this split second decision, Saena might've felt bad about it, knowing Wildfire had nothing to do with Fox's "crimes", but she wasn't.

Nightjar grabbed her attention simply because he looked different. Raven, the third pup, was just like Junior and Ty, exactly as Peregrine said. Wildfire's gene pool was also obvious. But Nightjar didn't resemble mother or father. "Is he the milkman's?" Saena asked, half joking and half concerned that Fox actually was a gigantic whore (because why not, she was also the devil in wolf's clothing, wasn't she?) and that Nightjar wasn't Peregrine's kid at all.