Phoenix Maplewood Forward, the Light Brigade!

Hey guys! This is an impromptu, fast paced pack meeting spurred by IC events. It is quite important for PHX so please try to post at some point, else your character might be approached by Saena for not attending! For the sake of moving it along relatively quickly, I'm going to start by assuming the pack has already gathered; those who reply will be "accounted for" and those who do not will be assumed to have not shown up. This round will last until the evening of February 10th. @Reek @Ukko @Tavi @Spring @Laika @Esaro @Lunar Eclipse @Kael @Apollo @Desna @Val

She was once again beset by the feeling that she hardly knew her comrades, but with the fire of both ire and maturity lit under her ass, she stared out at them firmly nonetheless. She was their Alpha female, after all. She hadn't met many of them whilst healing in the confines of Reek's den and wallowing in despair, but she stood resolutely now. Her rib still ached when the weather was cold and it still had much healing to do, but it didn't pain her to stand tall.

"We have a problem growing to the southwest," she informed those gathered. Her eyes swept across the crowd. "As you know, we recently acquired neighbours to the north, in the mountains. Our agreement with them ensures that we both will have enough prey. There is another pack further to the southeast, who lay claim to all prey in their area.

Now we have a wolf attempting to found a pack to our southwest." She let that hang over them a moment, then gestured toward the glacier, from which sprung the moraine, a treacherous and near impassable cluster of broken stone and jagged ice, visible even through the wintry branches of the maplewood. "The prey we hunt can't pass safely over the moraine. That means their only route to our home is through the woods and wetlands. This pack would settle very close to that route, and the scent of them would drive the prey away from us. We would have to go far out of our way to hunt the prey from the plains." There was still prey that could come from the south, but Saena's grasp of the region was minimal, and she didn't know how far the Creek's influence reached. No, she would sooner secure the source of prey they had had for months. There were hundreds of woods Aaron could claim and none of them interfered with her pack's hunting, save for the one he had chosen.

"I have informed their prospective leader of the lack of space here, and asked that he leave the area and seek another home. He refuses." Her brow furrowed, Saena gave them all a final glance over, then bared her teeth. "He would see us struggle for food to serve his own needs. We were here long before him and this home belongs to us. We must drive him out before he has a chance to threaten us further."