Rising Sun Valley beginning

Wolves were flooding into Swiftcurrent Creek, and for an entire spectrum of reasons. Bazi still hadn't come to terms with the recent invasion of Tortuga wolves, which had left her blooded and the Creek bereft of a beloved sister. The topic had yet to be mentioned by anyone close to her, let alone properly discussed, and the Creek wolf dealt with this silence by throwing herself into work. That meant scouting, and keeping a rapidly growing pack fed.

Unlike other recent recruits, Athena's entry had been rather low key. Bazi didn't know of her existence until she heard it from Fox, and assumed the newcomer must have arrived when she herself was sleeping off the battle for Bones.

It was Athena who slept now - but not alone. The familiar - and now enraging - scent of mountain was upon the second, larger stranger, who looked to be making casual conversation on the cusp of Creek territory. Does Jinx not brief her followers any more? Bazi thought - the Silvertip alpha was renowned for chasing off anyone that so much as breathed in the lands around her mountain; and here was one of hers, creeping perilously close to Bazi's home.

Bristling, tense, and agitated, the bright-white female called for @Fox, @Njal, and @Jace, howling low as she approached the newcomer and her unwelcome friend.