Blacktail Deer Plateau blue sky black death

Atticus wanted to know about Tortuga, the place where she'd spent her entire life before leaving to find him. Her ears fell back, not because she found the query distasteful in any way, but because she didn't know where to start. There was so much to tell about Tortuga!

"It's a place just down the coast. We claim Keelhaul Bay and Turtle Island," young Bones started, forgetting to use the past tense. "There's lots o' different crews there—me crew's the Blackflag—but we all make up one huge pack together. It's a very rough-'n'-tumble sorta place with lots of unruliness. A lot of the wolves there leave Tortuga often to pillage and plunder other packs. That's probably how you met me mother—while she was on a raid." The youth paused, then finished by saying, "I love it and hate it at the same time. Maybe one day, I could take you there..."

And now it was her turn to ask a question. She stuck her tongue in her cheek and screwed up one pastel eye as she tried to think of what to ask. Eventually, she decided to inquire, "What are my Uncles Crete and Peregrine and my Aunt Osprey like?" She'd met the latter but they'd only spoken for a few minutes before Bones had raced here, so she didn't feel like she'd gotten to know the woman very well at all. Not to mention, she hadn't known Osprey was her aunt at the time!