Hideaway Strath As the summer wind

Post order is: Malice - Aeronwyn - Burke - Thea. Puppies can post whenever they please XD

The amount of effort that was seen in Vassago trying to get to her made the new mother giggle. Pyro was very cute, but this image couldn't be topped for now. Burke holding the squirming thing, happily making sounds of desire to come to her- it was too much cuteness for Malice. She had hoped Burke would let Vassago stumble along to her himself, but perhaps the old male didn't want to risk Vassago running off or a predator to come close to them. But if it was about cleanliness, Burke could give up, since everyone was covered in mud at the moment with this rain. The cool rain felt good to her though after a long day of traveling, and she closed her eyes to take it all in. Never had she been free like this, and she doubted Burke had ever been.

An approving look was cast on the white woman keeping a look out. Even though Aeronwyn traveled behind her most of the time, she had proven to be no slacker, and Malice- with each passing minute- was trusting the woman more and more. Of course, she knew to be wary, for the Brotherhood was a pack to train assassins and spies after all. 

Her gaze went to the father of her little babes, the gray male with his docked tail, to hear what he had to say. The sounds of a stream in the distance only now reached her, and she frowned. With this rain, crossing a river would probably be a disaster ending with one of them drowning. But as she looked around, she saw they were in some kind of bowl made out of mountains, so unending the stream or river could not be. A new determination filled her, but she did not act yet. They needed to rest for now. A place to settle sounds fantastic, Burke. And I don't think that, past these mountains, the Dark Brotherhood would follow us. She shared her thoughts, before the faint scent-smothered by the rain- reached her nose. She protectively curled around her kids and her hackles, though wet and droopy, raised. But the stranger seemed like no threat, and thus Malice felt the need to respond.

We have only just arrived here, and thus far we have not seen a soul in this place. The scent marks you are seeking surely are gone with the rain now too... Malice replied. She kept a side-eye on Burke, not knowing if she was revealing too much to this stranger. Why do you seek them?