Heron Lake Plateau If you get lost you can always be found

wc: 420
We could do a SUPERQUICK hunting round. Basically, Chey if you wanted to roll for a successful/unsuccessful outcome, and then each have one post to play it out. What do you guys think of that? *wiggles creatively*

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Occasionally wolves would come to the border with a sort of air about them that told Niamh they expected to get in, because they knew someone in the pack or because they were healthy looking. This one, though, was different; not quite as desperate to be hidden as Camilla, but this one definitely seemed to know that her time to find a pack before the real winter hit was running out, and she seemed to fear being rejected. Niamh liked seeing that- not because it made her feel powerful to have others cower before her, but because it meant that they were a realist, that they understood the costs of life and death, and that they knew they weren’t invincible. It also meant that they would be grateful, and if they were grateful, they’d likely work hard.

Phox introduced the female, and she nodded to him. Phox was doing really well- and she’d be damned if she hadn’t noticed Phox and Towhee hanging around more- and that had been her plan all along. She shrugged lightly at the girl’s skills. ”We have hunters, and guardians.” She said, her tone indicating, for a moment, that she wasn’t impressed, terribly, bu Kaala’s prerequesites. ”But we don’t often have wolves coming here looking for family unless their family already lives here...That’s a good quality to have.” She said. Had she softened? Or was she simply looking ahead to winter, too? Another mouth to feed- or another one on the chase. If she had any hope of having children, she’d need other capable hunters and guardians in the pack to take her place when she was as fat as a cow.

There was something bordering on desperation in Kaala’s eyes, which shimmered lightly. She frowned, but told herself not to be too hard...She could break this girl’s spirit in an instant, she knew. She’d done it, before. She tilted her head to the side. ”I caught the tracks of a few deer on my way here. Let’s see how you hunt. Phox- we could use your help too,” She said. Should the hunt fail, it wouldn’t necessarily lead to Kaala’s rejection...Niamh simply wanted to see the effort the girl would put in, and the skills she had. No wolf was successful all of the time- but technique mattered, and she could tell a lot even from a failed hunt. Of course, if they made a kill, then they’d all get a meal out of it.

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