Blacktail Deer Plateau rude awakening [m]

Oh Perry, haha.

When he motioned toward the squirrel, Fox dove into it without so much as a moment's hesitation. She crunched the bones as if they were crackers, and chewed the entrails as if they were gummy worms. When she took her last bite and swallowed it, she followed it up with a ladylike burp. That is, if burps could be ladylike at all. She had been ready to settle down and take a nice, long nap, but before she could do so, Peregrine was close beside her, touching her in a way that was... well, much like the way she had been treated by Haunter.

She wasn't quite sure how to process it, and in doing so pulled away from him with a sidestep. Instead of calling him out on it, Fox gave him a smile that said it all: there was one more thing she needed to get out. “Peregrine,” she said, using his unshortened name to convey the force of the request she was about to ask of him, “Can you go to the creek? Or send somebody? And tell Bazi that I am here? She is my Beta, and I cannot make a decision without her. It would mean the world to me. Nobody else at the creek needs to know where I am, but I must speak with her.”