Blacktail Deer Plateau lost in the backwood

"That's what I'm wondering myself," Mordecai murmured at her side, thinking of the mountains that reached over the Plateau. Though they were sparsely lined with forestry past where the pack resided, he knew brush existed there. And who knew how far Osprey would have gone, or how far Dante would have pursued her to find her. These thoughts he had no qualms in sharing with Harlyn either.

"I'm wondering if either of them didn't find a path up into the mountains. The terrain there is pretty rocky, but the cover of the forest gives out along the rise," he went on to say. "We've scoured most of the territory looking for them and I think it's obvious to say neither of them are here." They were neither dead or alive and for a moment, it was a complete Schrodinger's Cat. They had to be tucked away somewhere, but until they were found he believed that there was no way to guess whether or not they had survived.