Blacktail Deer Plateau survival 101

behati had become a cold and priggish beast since her return, and lasher worried that her shift in behavior had something to do with his son. casmir had done little else but skulk about the edges of the plateau and answer parental inquiries in a monotone.

the sound of the girl's angered voice at the borders turned the beta toward the commotion -- he came upon the pair there, behati with her defenses risen toward the shrinking creature at the borders, some oddly coloured female that was not quite wolf.

"why have you come?" he asked in a gentler tone, casting behati a warning glance before his attentions returned to the beast. her eyes were soft in a delicate face, and he sensed her lineage was mingled, though with the winter coming, he would not turn aside a mongrel if contribution could be had.