reach for the stars

Absentminded. It was likely a good, describing word for the wolf right now. Thoughts trailed through her mind, questions with no answer, self-depreciating statements. They had gained two returning members today, from what Iqniq had told her but even that was like a lance to the heart. They had joined and she would fail in protecting them, just as she had Kanik. How the coyotes had slipped her notice, Nanuk was completely unsure but in doing so, she had allowed the endangerment of the pups and the death of a comrade. 

Perhaps time away from the Spire right now would do her good, would get her mind off of the events that had transpired so recently. She left with a curt departure to her Alpha, keeping her thoughts to herself and then... Then she had simply wandered. The pale creature did not quite pay attention to where she was headed and it was only when the smell of another pack invaded her nose that she awoke from her meandering stupor to find herself facing a line of trees. 

Fortunately, she hadn't crossed the borders but that didn't stop her from practically tripping over a lump a rock a wolf???? "What the f--" Her gaze settled on a furred mass, sprawled across the scent markings of the pack, of his pack judging by the scent. "Are you dead?" She snapped. "What the fuck are you doing laying there?"