Blackfeather Woods kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown

She shook her head. "It's okay," Maegi responded, kindness in her voice. "You saved my life--I owe you big time." It was a debt that could never be repaid, not unless Maegi helped Moonshadow out of her own near-death crisis. And for her sake, as well as Maegi's, she hoped that moment would not come--at least not soon.

"Why did you come for me, alone?" She remembered there had been another woman with the Blackfeather wolf, but she held no significance to Maegi then, and she hadn't caught sight or scent of her here. A fleeting recruit, no dout. "Why didn't Kove come? Nyx? Aries?" There was resentment under each punctuated question, the bitterness clear on her tongue.

"Not that I don't appreciate what you did," she added, "but why you? Why did no one else come for me?"