I could use someone like you

Reek's words cut through her like a knife. Junior, dead? Anger and hatred were quick to spring into her heart at the thought of her friend being killed. She knew nothing of the situation or the history between Junior and Fox, but that did not lessen the blow that she felt in her soul. Kas attempted to speak a few times, opening and closing her mouth almost comically, if not for the pained and twisted expression on her face. "How did she die?" she finally asked, her dulled gaze turning toward Saena, the one who had known Junior best.

Whatever Reek and Saena proposed, Kaskara would stand behind it. There was no reason to turn on the backs of their northern neighbors in favor of these bloodthirsty southerners. If they wished to trespass upon their lands, then Kaskara would tear them apart, no matter if it was two hundred or twenty yards from the peak. They would not be allowed free reign here. An idea bubbled in her mind, a coalition of warriors from the northern packs, patrolling and protecting their southern border from these heathens. Kaskara would do whatever was necessary in order to protect her family.