Swiftcurrent Creek Home is where the heart lives.

Salutations! I'd like to give @Njal @Scimitar and @Razo the opportunity to post after me (and anyone else from Swiftcurrent Creek who would like to, of course). :D

There are days that make your life what it is. They stand out like blood on white linen, bright and ominous and red. Today was one of those days. Today, there was hardly and white left.

The events of the last 24 hours had aged Bazi beyond her 16 months. The fight with Fox had streaked her coat with brown, green, and flecks of rusty red, and the subsequent sprints across Swiftcurrent territory darkened her legs up to the knee. Had she run across water? Bazi could not remember.

Mid-run, she had sent her own howl into the air, summoning all and any that weren't looking for Fox. If Ferdie was here, it was to negotiate, but this time Bazi did not wish to do so alone. Njal and Scimitar were no doubt at her heels, but she was too exhausted to confirm it.

When she arrived in front of Ferdie, he was flanked by Amekaze and the strange 'half-dog' that she had encountered in the swamp. Fang had not heeded her words, then, and was now adding whatever strength and skills he possessed to the Sunspire lot. It took Bazi several moments to realise that the alpha and his cronies came bearing gifts. Leaf and Magpie, unharmed if a little skinny, lurked behind the envoy of Sunspire wolves. Bazi's bright, blue eyes scanned each of the three faces in front of her. Fang first, then Amekaze - and Ferdie, last of all. She lingered her, staring hard into the eyes of her once den-mate. Whatever madness had caused Fox to drive him from the Creek was no longer there, but Bazi did not trust for one second that it wasn't lurking beneath the thin sheet of pepper-grey iris.

She stood stock-still and silent, waiting for the Swiftcurrent wolves to assemble behind her.