Porcupine Ridge For a mother, a brother and me

This thread is set on the joint border between PR and RJ, therefore members from both packs are welcome to join and it cannot be considered trespassing on either side unless you explicitly state that your character has gone beyond the joint border.

Their neighbours showed no signs of leaving, and though Farstep both sensed and inherently understood that Taggarik wanted no physical confrontation, it was his duty as beta and guardian to keep the borders secured. He felt no remorse as he traipsed across the snowy ridge in the direction of the thundering mountain with the intent to erase their scent markings. It was a war of a different sort, that of willpower. Each pack's border patrols would refresh their markings, and in so doing contest the other's. It was simply the way of things.

The tawny male broke into a purposeful stride as he sighted the edge of the territory. He reached it promptly and, without any preamble, lifted a leg to urinate over the carefully tended scent marks left by the Ridge wolves. The pungent odour of the wolves on the other side made him wrinkle his nose and soon he set about replacing their scents by overlapping his own. It was as an invisible line drawn in the snow: on one side, the thick scent of his comrades; on the other, the scent of strangers. He straddled the line expertly, neither failing to mark it as closely as possible nor crossing into their territory.