Redtail Rise A Leaf in the Wind (IC joining)

The loner offered to pledge himself to the Rise, but Reek was not so quick to extend a helping hand.  His alpha had matched his cold austerity with a biting remark of her own. No handouts.  It seemed the free-spirits of the rise weren't so free-spirited no more, at least not with strangers.  Not after that week from hell: Junior was still gone and Saena had come back bloodied and bruised.  The outside world was no longer a friend of theirs.  Trust no longer came easy to the bedraggled beta, and no one entered his family without trust.

"I'm not so sure about this Saena," he warned.  "I mean, look at him.  Unless he's goddamn brilliant — which I doubt, or else he'd have a better plan than this — he'll be of little use to us.  We need defenders, wardens, not scrawny little fucks that look like me."  In truth, if Reek had shown up on the pack's borders to be judged by himself, he would have turned himself away.  Ragged. Boney. Physically useless.  "We should make him do something," he added while he narrowed his eyes at the newbie.  "That way, we'll know he means business."