let me see through your eyes, where there's so much life

Saena was safe in the confines of the den, gnawing at an itchy shoulder for the fifteenth time in the last two hours. It had started that morning, the itching. She assumed it had something to do with her injuries, though if she was a more attentive patient, she would've known otherwise. She would've known her injuries were healing, albeit slowly. She would've known the poison of infection was not as much of a threat now as it had been before. But her skin crawled uncomfortably and itches erupted along her hide sporadically, and with no explanation for it, the alpha assumed it was blood sickness.

She didn't tell her mate, though. If he noticed her compulsive itching, he hadn't said anything yet. She was still pissed at him and refused to even acknowledge the "coyote issue", but she'd worried him enough. Admitting to blood sickness wouldn't ease his mind any further. It might send him into a full-fledged panic attack. So when Reek asked if she wanted to take a walk, even though she would much rather stay and scratch her skin clean off, the alpha female acquiesced by rising and following him at a hobble.

It seemed their aimless walk wasn't to be so aimless, for her mate swore when an unfamiliar voice rose over the maplewood. Saena didn't even have a chance to ask what the problem was before he motioned for her to follow, and the pair set off toward the border. She let Reek pull ahead, though he was dutiful and didn't get too far. Stretching her wounds to discomfort wouldn't serve her any good, so she tagged along at her painfully slow pace, wincing now and again when the ground proved too uneven.

She licked her chops curiously when they arrived at the borders to see a silver-furred female with a curiously inky countenance. The alpha furrowed her brow, but it was Reek who spoke, and it was in a snap very uncharacteristic of him. Saena's eyes flew to the side of his face, taken aback by his sudden stormy mood, but to the unknown coywolf on the border, she still said nothing.