Otter Creek All my flowers grew back as thorns.

With a shrug, Taki replied, "Honestly, I'm not sure. I just recently joined to be with my family." She knew it sounded bad, but it was the truth. She didn't really have any loyalty to the pack, which felt a little wrong, but she hadn't been there long enough to give them her loyalty; it was not something she gave freely. Her only real loyalty right now was to her family. All she wanted to do was find Tomkin and get him the fuck home. She constantly worried about her sister and the new pups, even more now that she couldn't see for herself that they were safe. 

"I'm sorry, I wish had more information for you to repay you for your warning," she added with a small smile. Wraen didn't have to warn her at all. They didn't know each other. But she had, and Taki was thankful for it even if she was stubbornly going to travel through the mountains anyway.