The Sunspire In the Back of My Mind

!!hi!! i'm being vague too bc i have a thread with danica then i have a thread with laksha that have ??? outcomes (and i'm probably gonna say that laksha one comes after this, just in case? idk my timelines are wonky right now i don't even want to make sense of them haha) but i wanted ame to know nightingale better ^^

Amekaze picked her way down the mountainside, feeling introspective in light of everything as she traveled from the higher elevation. While her focus was often elsewhere on external matters as of lately, it was difficult not to look inward time and again. She contemplated how things had changed already here upon the Sunspire and where they may go in the future, especially now that their claim was growing more and more secure by the day. If they successfully forced Swiftcurrent to back off, that would be just another positive for them. That paired with continued pack growth could make them able to weather the winter even better than she anticipated.

But that was thinking awfully far ahead. She wondered, too, of herself and her place here. She busied away at honing her skills when she was able, and of course worked on average duty of caching and patrolling. Soon, the pack may come to recognize her in full for her chosen trades -- although they were of varied uses depending on who one asked. Nevertheless, it would secure her place and purpose here in one way.

From there, she knew not what would become of her.

Amekaze's sights picked up not long after smelling a vaguely familiar scent -- a fellow Sunspire wolf, one of their juveniles that she was certain was close to Ferdie. However Ame had rarely spent time with her one on one. She jogged up quietly in approach and chuffed lowly once she was close enough to the young wolf in the grass. While the question remained unspoken, she peered at the youth as if to ask what was up. She seemed... bothered, almost? Although Ame could not guess why.