Moonspear aisi chhoti chhoti baatein

he heard out the woman's story, nodding intermittently as she described the scene. it seemed that she, too, had not actually seen this wolf--but her mate had, and had chased the rogue away. not near, she said. adi's eyes turned to the forbidding mountains in which moonspear was nestled. had she decided to risk the passage over those crags?

"thank you," aditya said, his voice suffused with gratitude as he bowed his head once more. "i myself did not witness this incident on the border. . .but i've been told that she carried no pack-scent, nor gave any sort of affiliation."

he realized, as he answered, that moonspear was also on-guard against the pack to the south, probably even more than morningside was. after all, it had been a girl from this mountain who had warned dawn of their threat, and he had gathered that this pack was more tied up in the drama than morningside, who--for now--were curious but wary bystanders.

"those mountains," adi said, pointing his nose at the barrier range. "would a desperate wolf attempt to traverse them? it's not worth climbing them to chase her, is it?"