Horizon Ridge Yeah she's there all right

The hefty male was dumbstruck for a moment, nearly long enough for Saena to provoke him with a slash of fangs, but he moved quickly enough that the alpha stilled her rage. She quivered as he buffeted her on the way past, and for three bounds she followed hot on his heels with her hackles at full prickle, but he showed no signs of turning about and she ground to a halt. Whittier's fat form disappeared into the distance and Saena snorted and turned away.

Her ears remained plastered agitatedly against her scalp as she returned to the nook her babes were stashed away in. By now they were awake and fretful, so Saena penned them in by dropping to her belly before them. "Thank you, Gaia," she said wearily, turning to eye the sand-and-seafoam woman. "Remain and rest with me, if you'd like." The cubs were old enough now that Saena didn't have too many qualms with the pack interacting with them, and it was necessity anyway at this point. She had no choice but to let her pack meet with them. It was impossible to move them otherwise.