Ankyra Sound outside a doll, inside a plague

Being a leader was work, and Wylla hated work.

Most days she was content to lounge about on the pebbled strand, finding new ways to procrastinate on her duties, but she awoke on the wrong side of restless, and the need to burn some energy drove her to pace the entirety of their claim. She started with the beach, working her way to the shoreline from the Grotto and then up and around the northern side. It was chilly in the shadow of the cliffs. By the time she reached one of the few paths up into the forest above, the tide was beginning to roll in, and a cool wind was blowing in off it as well.

The morning went by uneventfully. Eventually, Ingram joined her from somewhere to the west, and together they made to conquer the sequoia forest that made up the bulk, but not the heart, of their territory. The woods smelled more faintly of Grimnismal than did the beach, for few of their number made a regular point of patrolling the woods, but Lycaon frequented it and kept it marked well enough. Wylla supplied fresh markings wherever they seemed to be lacking, and departed from Ingram's side for a moment to mark out toward the eastern edge of the territory. That's when she found the interloper.

More than neck-deep in their woods was a haggard silvery wolf leaned up against a tree. That was all that Wylla noticed about her before the restlessness from earlier surged up into an uncharacteristic bout of aggression. Her charcoal hackles rose along her spine and a harsh snarl rolled from her throat as she lunged into a furious gallop, but just as she was bunching her muscles to leap at the offending canid, her paw caught on an uplifted root and she stumbled forward, slamming face-first into the same tree Parthenos was leaning against.

In true Wylla fashion, she wasted no time in running her mouth rather than recovering smoothly and continuing the assault: "Get the hell out of our woods!"

Trespassing scenarios in Grimnismal are non-consent so Wylla will be attacking without preamble or explicit permission. I rolled a 1 or critical failure for this though so she's going to autohit herself, so this can be considered her warning post, lmao.