Blacktail Deer Plateau rude awakening [m]

Anybody is welcome, but one quick poster is preferred to keep things moving along. This takes place the day after Perry brings her into the pack, and I believe he would have mentioned her presence to the other pack members so they don't try and eat her. Also! The first part of this (in italics) is a dream.
To readers: this thread gets hot and heavy at post #22.

Fox awoke parched, smacking her lips with her tongue and rolling from where she had fallen asleep the night before, Perry wrapped around her. But he was no longer here. For a moment, she panicked, but the yearling reminded herself that this was his home, not hers, and he likely had other duties to attend to. She could not recall why she was here, but she did not put too much thought into it, either. Instead, she arose from her place on the ground, picked a direction, and began padding at a steady pace. She hoped to hit water.

She arrived at the creek's edge, oddly amused at how she'd gotten back home so quickly. Across the way, she saw Haunter's looming figure standing there, one ear missing, as it always had been. She smiled at him, and then began paddling toward him. But the current was too strong, and she only realized this when she was halfway across. “Just like Lethe,” was her final thought before the water enveloped her and she began breathing in buckets full of water.

Grey eyes shot open and she gasped for breath as she rolled onto her side. Fox's heart was pounding and her body was sore from her head to the tip of her tail. "Only a dream," she told herself, the flood of the past week's events filling her mind as quick as the water had filled her lungs in the dream. But she was parched, and she needed to find something to eat. With an eerie sense of deja vu, Fox picked a direction and began slowly working her way to the east.