Rising Sun Valley the power of voodoo (discovery)

Jinx's shoulders lifted into a noncomittal shrug, as though to indicate she hadn't known the marsh was here. The swamp and the lake bordering it were clearly the sources of it, but it looked like a grassland. Jinx would no doubt return in the summer and see it for what it really was. Now, however, she knew nothing about it. The channels of water were hidden from view, the breadth of the marsh was uncertain, and any secrets laying beneath its surface were barely conceived notions to the Kesuk. She had simply found it.

"I'm scouting," she explained vaguely, but chose to expand on it a moment later. "Swiftcurrent Creek is getting quite large. I thought it would be prudent to see what else is out here, in case we need to expand or find food further out." In reality, she was also looking for wolves that were skulking too close. As time went on, she became more and more possessive of Swiftcurrent's surrounding territories, such that a wolf on Mount Apikuni would be as unwelcome as one within her pack's marked territory.

"I'm sure she made an impression," Jinx assumed, unaware that Fox had been quite disinterested with Pied's presence.