Bearclaw Valley judgement day

for @Xan, please :)

It left little to the imagination what Laurel's purposes may be as she set out that day. There was a determination in her step and a purposefulness in her gaze; dutiful, full of motherly love and resolve of what she must do. She had not fully recovered from giving birth and the weak weeks that followed where she was confined to the den. She'd only started moving around weeks ago, mostly after she and Indra had merged dens to hers. She hadn't let Xan near the pups -- not her pups, anyway, he could have Nunataq and Marten whenever he wanted -- and had mostly doted upon them. But today she would dote upon them in a different ways. Make things right, even though she herself had no idea how the meeting would end. Whether she'd tell Xan to stuff it or call into his arms and live happily ever after.

Rather than calling she sought to follow his scent trail from when he'd last dropped by the den to deliver some food, figuring she would find him that way.