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Saena seemed to pick up on Wildfire's uneasiness and reassured her that she wasn't trespassing. Wildfire noted this with a perfunctory nod, relaxing a little bit. She finally blinked several times, then took a few steps and slowly dropped to her haunches. Her ears cupped forward at the other female's comment and her cheeks puffed out with a held breath that she released in a slow whoosh.

"I'm just wandering," she replied, which was the truth, more or less. Wildfire paused, her skin crawling a little at the thought of recollecting recent events out loud. But how else could she explain? "I just left my pack," she bluntly confessed. "I was involved with a guy there and we didn't work out," she said in way of explanation. Only as the words left her mouth did she realize Saena had probably assumed she still lived at the caldera. "I haven't lived at the caldera since last fall."

She rolled a slender red shoulder in conveyance of a silent message: I don't really wanna talk about it. Wildfire wouldn't mind keeping the spotlight on Saena, as a matter of fact, and took the next breath to inquire, "So... you and Reek are expecting?" There was a small possibility her half-sister had just gained (a lot) of weight but Wildfire was pretty sure it was a safe assumption Saena was, in fact, pregnant.