Big Salmon Lake part of a system, a plan. [m-ish]

Yes, Ptarmigan did seem rather pleased with herself. She should probably have been more mortified over having murdered someone, but by the time she got to Jinx, there had been little of the wolf left. “She was sick, I think,” Ptarmigan clarified when the male's head tilted, “so I did them a favour.” Although there was a part of her wholly expecting the pack to skin her from head to toe, there was another part of her that expected a celebration in her honour for ridding them of their plague.

“Not at all,” she replied when Andrus questioned her. “I was planning to dig up a cache and steal their stuff when I found her.” The compulsion to drown her was left unsaid. She thought the opportunity to usurp the pack was more than evident in her story, and that Andrus would understand her motives... Despite the fact he had so far given little evidence of understanding implication at all.