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She smiled at him as he pressed against her, letting him know she was okay silently. He gets it. He didn't have a dad either and he lost his family too, else he wouldn't be here. "It's okay."

Kareja listened intently as Embry brought up his father, a concerned tone in his voice as he stared down at the ground. She wasn't sure how to comfort him, she couldn't tell him where and what his father was up to nor if he was even still alive. Instead she leaned against him, offering silent compassion. 

The question surprised her but perhaps it should not have, it was a reasonable inquiry.The Teekon Wilds were much farther south than her old home. "When it gets hot I shed much of my fur. I like to swim too, that helps." Despite the flood she had survived, Kareja loved to swim. She had an phobia of deep water and wouldn't go past anything higher than chest level but anything below that was fair game for the arctic wolf.