The Sentinels I dream about her, but we have never met

She's assumed that Osprey is a leader of the pack, and finds that she was incorrect in that assumption. It seems wrong—aside from her sudden disappearance, Osprey has been with the pack for over a year. Saena can't think of a single wolf, aside from those who already lead it (she assumes nothing has changed since the plateau) who could possibly deserve it more. "You're not a leader here?" she asks, dumbfounded, and momentarily forgets the reason she stopped and lingered at the sentinel forest. Osprey's howl echoes through the trees and her red-backed ears press back deferentially.

She doesn't have the chance to remember what she'd been saying immediately, for Lasher appears on the scene swiftly and with his typical brand of concern and compassion. "Lasher," she says quietly, a breath. She remembers the last time they met, how tense it had been and how poorly she'd treated him. Forgiveness is the last thing she can hope for, but the wise druid gives it so freely she need not even ask. Saena deserves less and knows it. "My pack has fled the maplewood," she begins, ears pressing more firmly to her head, "from the teeth of an adversary. I—"

A third wolf arrives, but it isn't Dante or Blue Willow. Aria is completely unfamiliar, not someone Saena knew from her time in Blacktail Deer Plateau, and though she is a lovely thing and surely within the good graces of the pack's leadership to dare to respond to a call for them, Saena's jaws come together and she falls silent. Whilst seeking to discuss the matters of her pack and pups with her family, Saena is not willing to tell of these sensitive matters in the presence of a stranger. Subordinate of Lasher or not, and trusted by the pack or not, Aria is someone Saena herself doesn't know, and she's learned the hard way that subordinates are not always obedient and don't always hold the ideals of their leaders close at hand. She can't risk endangering her pack or pups by speaking loosely.