Arrow Lake Ouch that must've hurt

A small peal of laughter escaped from Rue as Kazimir delivered the unexpected joke. At least, Rue assumed it was a joke... never in a million years would she imagine another wolf would want to flirt with her. 

"And what if it was a man in distress? Leave him to sort it out for himself?" Rue joked back, enjoying the feeling of laughing with a packmate. How long had it been since she had been so carefree? The lighthearted conversation was certainly a welcome distraction from the slowly dying elk, which was a somewhat grizzly sight to say the least. 

Rue nodded to Kazimir's final comment. She was still trying to wrap her mind around the idea that Diaspora claimed the entire mountain chain for itself.