Blacktail Deer Plateau Seeing to the injured

Burr was destined to remain in Morningside for minimally six weeks, but with the severity of his break, it was more likely to take nine or even ten weeks to be healed enough for him to travel as far as Easthollow. For the first little while in Morningside, he was reclusive, moody and somewhat unresponsive to anyone but Pema and Easy, who came along frequently to check on him and tend to his ankle. They had set the bone as best they could (they were all wolves, after all) and splinted his ankle with wraps of various types of material, then gave him free run of the rendezvous site and Pema's den for healing.

Much of his time was spent in Pema's den, sleeping or trying not to move too much. The pain in his ankle was a constant, throbbing reminder of his screw up, and being only half a year old, Burr wasn't well equipped for sucking it up yet. He whined frequently whenever he needed to move the injured ankle, and the world practically ended every time he forgot about his injury and put weight on it. Yes, Burr was a miserable wolf to be around for the first week in Morningside, so it was a wonder that Pema and Easy kept coming back at all.

As that first week began to draw to a close, though, Burr became less miserable and more resigned to his condition. There was nothing he could do about it, and no amount of thinking of his family would make them realize what happened to him, so why be such a brat? When Pema's head cut the light filtering through the wide mouth of the den, Burr even mustered up a smile for her when he lifted his head and shook his tail. "Yeah, I'm okay," he said, and for once, he meant it.