Blacktail Deer Plateau breathe deep

He thanked Pema with a quiet huff and then headed toward the den to peek in at the pups inside. Still sleeping. Until they woke, he'd busy himself with some tracking; even if their caches were full, he liked to keep an eye on what was going on around the territory.

"She'll be healed before winter, I expect," said Grayday, pausing to sniff at the base of a tree. "She's got nothin' but some cracked ribs and some broken toes. Don't take long for that to put itself right."

That is, if she kept up with her rest, and didn't do anything silly. The father was fairly certain she'd take longer than some, due to her insistence on 'helping', but there was nothing to be done about that. Dawn had to learn on her own that her body had limits, and enforcing bedrest would only delay that process.