Blacktail Deer Plateau Your journey has only begun

Part of Pied liked the sound of accompanying Peregrine to see Hawkeye, yet she didn't want to crash their lunch date. Besides, she wanted to find Kisu and tell him about the quickening. It was an exciting milestone in their pregnancy and she wanted to share it with him. They were about halfway there.

"I think I'll take a raincheck," she said. "Have fun and tell Hawkeye I said hey. She knows, by the way," Pied added almost sheepishly. "She's my sister and best friend. Only the two of you, Kisu and Jin—"

Jinx! They're Jinx's pups! The realization slammed into her, a precognition so strong she didn't doubt it for a second. Her heart seemed to stop for a moment before resuming thudding in her chest. Slowly, a frown took over her features. Jinx's pups are dead. She'd almost forgotten about them in light of the move but she hadn't, not entirely. And now she felt a strange sense of loss and grief.

"They're Jinx's puppies," she said to Peregrine in a quiet voice. "She's a former pack mate of mine. I'd actually... I guess it doesn't matter now." Pied sighed, her eyes lifting unseeingly to stare in the direction of Swiftcurrent Creek.