Big Salmon Lake You talkin' to me

She seemed slightly confused about the concept of scent but crept forward to sniff at him more. Maybe she was too young to pick up all the different nuances of scents like he had - or maybe he had a skill for it. It was hard to say, you knew what scent you had and that was the norm. You could never experience someone else's scent capabilities.

Dhole asked whether FitzDutiful knew about Redhawk Caldera and FitzDutiful couldn't help but chuckle. Of course he knew it - knew it well, or so he had. He remembered his last encounter there and felt slightly ashamed at how he had reacted. He had taken it way too personally, so he realised now. He couldn't expect them to just welcome him to their borders any more. Just because he did didn't mean that was how they were to be either.

"I know it well. I followed you mum and dad when they set off to found the Redhawk Caldera. I stayed for a long time until me and my mate wanted children of our own and so we made our own pack."

It was a very brief history of his time with the pack, but it summed it up well - other than the countless things he had learnt from the pup in front of him. He didn't know what she was definitely Peregrine's offspring but she had such a look of Fox about her that it seemed hard to say otherwise - plus she was about the right age too.