Swiftcurrent Creek hidden in the footnotes

"Ahoy! Me name's Bones!"

At the speed Bazi was going, it took a split second to find the source of the 'Ahoy' - a dark, spindly spider of a wolf with over-sized ears and legs like black reeds. She announced herself with confidence, and - the newcomer hoped - an open mind. There'd been quite enough defending of one's right to exist over the past few days. Jinx, Lecter - and even Björn were not wolves that trusted easily, and the tone of those conversations had (at least to begin with) not been in keeping with the bright and hopeful season they were approaching.

"Bazi!" she barked back, changing down (apparently wolves are manual) to a brisk walk. They were still close enough to the cougar for the smell to waft over when the breeze picked up, but Bazi figured she ought to exchange a few pleasantries before diving straight into corpse talk. "New here. Are you a native, born-and-bred?" she asked, pointing her thick, fluffy ears forward. Bones was quite obviously a pup, meaning one (hopefully two) of the creek wolves must be her parent(s).