Redtail Rise sleepless solitude tonight

It's alright! <3

Mercury was not so absent from what was going on around him as he surrounded himself within the routine of patrolling that he did not hear the soft footfalls of another. Patrolling the borders, after all, was not a task to be performed at half attention. Ears splayed to either side of his head as it rose, ears twitching to determine whether the sound was coming from within the borders or from the outside. Black, leathery nostrils flared to take test the air, trying to decipher if he could pick up a scent, ahead of her as he was, or not. Bracken rustled under his weight as it shifted, his svelte body shifting so he could still keep a sharp eye on the territories outside of the Rise's borders, but also pay her attention as she came into view.  Her scent, readily presented to him now as she had drawn nearer, giving a soft chuff to announce her presence to him, told him that she was of Redtail Rise, as well, though he had assumed as such considering she had approached him from within the borders.

Another senior member of the pack, and though he recognized her from the meeting he did not know her name. When he had attended the meeting there had been only a select few he had known, Reek, Arion, and Gunnar. “Hello,” The Dark skylark offered her softly, lowering his posture into one of proper submission to show his respect. Being the lowest man on the tier was not something that was unusual for Mercury whom had been the lowest in both Odinn's Cove and Flightless Falcon before he had left them to return back to the Teekon Wilds.