Phoenix Maplewood Remember me?

I'm going to PP @Sesi and @Nanook a bit, just saying they're here. I won't do it with Andrei 'cause I'm not sure about him, but I'm pretty sure Scarlett's pups would be with her, so hope you guys don't mind that assumption! :P

A single howl might've gone unanswered by the lazing alpha bitch, but a second howl, and specifically Citali's, drew the lounging woman's attention. She was at the edge of a stream, basking in a warm sunbeam with her forepaws dangling into the water. Loathe as she was to leave it for what sounded like a perfect stranger, the gamma's voice made the situation a lot more important. With a quiet sigh, she hoisted herself off and set off for the borders, still at her usual slow, injury-favouring pace.

What she saw when she arrived was at first worrisome. A large number of wolves showing up on a pack's border was rarely a good thing. Not that she'd ever experienced it, but it made her hackles ripple uncertainly. Then again, thought Saena as she eyed all of them, Citali would likely not be involved unless it was violently if this was a takeover. A second look over the group brought to attention the one leading them, and Saena started as recognition set in. This was the beta female of the Bearclaw pack, the one she'd met in the field with all the stones.

"What's going on?" she asked Scarlett, but her gaze drifted to the trustworthy amazon for clarification before settling on each of the smaller wolves present. Pups. She didn't much like the idea of taking in pups when she wanted her own, but Saena also knew in some primal part of her brain that her pups weren't possible until spring. That was perhaps the only thing that saved Nanook, Desna and Sesi from Saena's immediate judgment. Plus, they looked exhausted, almost moreso than the Nova Peak pups had when they were here last, and Saena's heart was bigger than her potential future jealousy.