Redtail Rise Who run this mother?

Not far from where the wounded Saena paused to issue her call, there lay a pile of carefully gathered leaves. The instant the prodigal Alpha female howled, it seemed to shudder. Then a head popped up abruptly, just like a jack-in-the-box. Two bright orange eyes blinked rapidly before eventually fixing on the pale form nearby. Two dark legs appeared as Smash sat up on her haunches and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes. Was she really seeing an orange panda wolf with a bobtail or was this a dream? She was still there when Smash let her forelegs fall back onto the leaf pile.

Springing from the crunchy bed of lettuce leaves, Smash shook some clinging detritus from her chocolate pelt, then trotted toward the other she-wolf. Now that she thought about it (read: now that she was a little more awake), this stranger fit the description of one Saena, the Alpha female of this joint. Reek and Arion had filled her in on the status quo and described the rise's proper leader. They hadn't seemed too sure of her return, so she was happy to see that Saena hadn't bailed before Smash even got a chance to meet her.

The new subordinate's dark face split into a grin as she came to a standstill perhaps three feet from Saena. This time, she remembered her manners and let her head and tail drop. "Howdy! Saena, right? I'm Smash. Your grand poobah and his sidekick accepted me while you were away." After introducing herself, the two-year-old reached out a foreleg for a friendly fist-bump... and then abruptly noticed the female's injuries. "Oh, snap! Someone stole your tail! I mean, among other things." Despite her joking tone, her amber eyes looked genuinely concerned as she took inventory of the Alpha's various contusions.