Firestone Hot Springs Plenty of Fish In The Sea

Set several hours after [url=https://wolf-rpg.com/showthread.php?tid=34819&pid=377758 - pid377758]
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After all the chaos that had ensued back at Elysium and that damned bear, Tzila needed to get away. As she carved a path farther from home, the events replayed over and over before her eyes. The cubs... Lily being thrown to the ground... Her body still, never to take a breath again... All that blood...The metallic tang in the air...the taste on her tongue. Adrenaline still pumped like hot fire through her veins.

Were it not for the pitch black fur covering the majority of her body and the crimson russet on her nape, the blood matting her coat would have been an eyesore. Some of it was hers, some of her packmates. But mostly it belonged to the bear. Still wet, it shone slickly against her coat, dribbling down her legs. She left a trail of bloodied pawprints as she walked, allowing the smell of sulfur to guide her.

Her nose wrinkled as she stood before the edge of a hot spring pool, her eyes narrowed in scrutiny. As badly as she needed a bath, taking a dip in these rancid waters wouldn't leave her smelling like roses again. Besides, anything could be in there. Just like the example of the remains of a carcass a nearby wolf had pulled out of another pool. Her lips curled in a silent sneer, not towards him but at the memory of the battle. "What was it?" She asked lowly as she faced him. "Deer...bobcat? Or perhaps something more...formidable?" Fat chance it had been a bear, though she would have delighted in such cruel karma.