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The bear was gone. For now. It'd ransacked their home when they'd failed to properly ward it off. Worse yet, it had completely demolished her garden to the point where she'd have to start all over again. The rows were torn. The plants were destroyed. The timing could not have been any worse with it so close to winter. She was in something of a hellish mood made all the worse by the ache in her shoulders. The bear had nicked her along the base of her scruff. Well. She was calling it a nick. In reality, the wound was more of a gash that had caused her to retreat lest she became too wounded to be of any service to those who needed it. Like Saena. Poor dear was starting to look more like a bear than a wolf these days.

Infuriated by the predator who'd ignored all warnings of their territory the alpha and herself were off to look for that wretched bear. They both wanted eyes on it. They both wanted to know it was headed far, far away from their territory. Heavens only knew they all needed the time to recover lest it come back again too soon. And of all things! Their alphena was now tailless. Tailless! She was looking less and less a wolf with each encounter. "Saena dear, if you keep giving pieces of yourself away to every beast you meet, you'll have nothing left to give!" The words had been uttered time and time again as she'd tended to her wounds. She'd done what she could to stop the bleeding, but short of confining the alpha female to a den, she was making far too much movement to let anything properly heal.

Citali'd accompanied Saena in this excursion for two reasons. The first, because she too wanted this bear gone. The second because the limp in Saena's hind leg as result of a gash had not yet healed. It was oozing and while Citali normally would have put her paw down as a healer and limited her patient's activities while she healed, Citali understood the need to protect their lands. She allowed it so long as she got to come along and care as needed. "Saena, dear. You're oozing again," she said with a wrinkle to her nose as she bid Saena come to a halt so Citali might tend to her once more. Moss to absorb the ooze. Oak leaves to serve as a temporary bandage. She had a feeling this would be something of a long, laborious excursion.