Blacktail Deer Plateau Powerplant

She hadn't really expected anybody to still be here, but it was still disappointing. The place where she had been born was quiet, almost eerily so, as she meandered along the sharp cliffs of the plateau. She recalled with surprising clarity seeing her father doing border patrol, Junior and Saena running around, Pura being the weirdo he always had been. Innocent times, those had been.

Junior was dead, and who knew where Saena and Pura had gone to. Peregrine was likely still at Redhawk Caldera, but Ty had no intention of going there to see him. It would only bring up all those bad childhood memories again, and he was likely busy with his children this year. She had always been a disappointment to those she had tried so hard to please, so she had stopped trying to please anybody but herself.

This past year had been spent traveling on her own, exploring the world, and trying not to starve in the process. She had become a better hunter, a better scout, and maybe even a better wolf.