Redhawk Caldera Please don't make any sudden moves

Their Alpha was silent for a moment, then overtly decided to split them up for a face-to-face instead. Sassafras easily guessed it was because only two had showed up and he had initially expected others, or perhaps, she realized with a little tremor of anxiety, it was because she was looking and acting guilty as hell. She glanced inconspicuously at the very lovely golden woman to gauge her reaction, but it wasn’t long before she pulled her eyes away and submissively sauntered after Peregrine.

She drew a breath when he asked her what she wanted to explain, then bit the side of her cheek again as she wondered how to put it. "You don’t remember me," she said point-blank, angling her shoulders towards him with ears that splayed back in apology for what she was about to confess. "I sort of… disappeared last year after you let me stay the first time, just before winter." And there it was; everything was out in the open. She would only explain the details if he wanted to hear them, but it was possible that he didn’t care for them because he didn’t remember her in the first place.