Blacktail Deer Plateau We kill dragons

Her senses were beginning to dull with dizziness and nausea when Blue Willow arrived. Saena's injuries were extensive, but mostly non-fatal. The only risks for her were infection and blood loss, and the second was nullified the moment that a Plateau wolf spotted her collapsed below their high ridge. She would be fit to slowly travel after a few days' rest, and that was precisely why Saena had chosen the plateau. She never would've reached the rise in time, so she chose the next place she felt safest, though she would forever feel indebted for having gone to them in her time of need. Their resources were precious and she hated to think she might waste them by being here, but she couldn't go any further.

Blue Willow must've smelled something on her, for her distant words echoed the word "Caldera". Saena's eyes widened as she struggled to stand with her aunt's help, gasping as her wounds stung and finding it difficult and taxing from sheer energy depletion more than anything. "No," she breathed, "no, no, Aunt Willow, you... you can't go there," Saena panted between gritted teeth as she tried to swallow down the aches and pains of her battered body.

Dante and Osprey both arrived then, the Alpha male with an expletive and Osprey with a rather shocking statement. Saena's eyes fixed on the greyscale Redleaf-DiSarinno. She tried to smile, to convey what that kinship meant without words, but it died on her lips. "Yeah," she said quietly, the word carried on a pained exhale. "Came outta nowhere, tried... tried to kill me... no warning..."

Her vision swam and she sat down heavily, shaking off a bout of light-headedness and doing her best to keep from vomiting. The pain was so much, it was a wonder she'd made it here without crying the entire way. It seemed so much worse now that she wasn't fleeing for her life with the belief that the red devil was on her tail. Her eyes shifted to Dante then, with an expression that seemed to say, why would she do that, though of course Saena knew Dante wouldn't know any more than she did.