Ravensblood Forest in a battle, that's all you get

Their business was concluded - perhaps bit had been since before Doe revealed herself to the coywolf. Either way, she had nothing more to say to the man, and little patience for further pleasantries. Without word, Doe tipped her head and flicked her tail in farewell and bounded the way she came, turning her back unguarded to the male in a rare show of trust.

Her little paws, aching though they were, carried her dutifully back toward her home. Halfway there, she would pause and double-back to stand a little longer in the shadows, but it was not to spy on her neighbors. Doe had made her peace with this new addition to the landscape - she'd added Teaghlaigh to her mental map of the area, and had branded Arturo's name beside that of her lover. Though she watched, it was with no more fear or suspicion that she afforded the seagulls that marched to and fro across the sand in her home.

She did not return home until dark, and she did not sleep for hours more.