Blacktail Deer Plateau rolling rock

Kaihra watched the girl carefully, as interested in her actions as she was in her reply. Having already checked the flatlands herself, the fiery girl confirmed what Kaihra had already observed as truth. Yet Fox followed her words with a short pause, and Kaihra briefly wondered what ran through the Beta's head. The dark wolf silenced her mind from speculation before her thoughts could tear through the dam she'd built against them. She couldn't let paranoia grasp her now. She needed to keep her thoughts as unbiased as possible if she wanted this to work.

As Fox turned the conversation on her, Kaihra gave a dip of her head. "Kaihra." She replied. At the gathering, Kaihra thought the girl's size had simply been dwarfed by the towering forms of Peregrine and Blue Willow, but she now realized Fox stood even shorter than herself. She looked young, too, and couldn't have been a day over two. Kaihra could see the scars that laced her body more clearly now, and she wondered what she had done to receive them.

"Peregrine mentioned you'd been Alpha of another pack." She flicked her gaze just off Fox's eyes and kept her body clearly submissive. She wondered for a fleeting moment if her remark had sounded blunt to the red girl's ears, but she knew she couldn't wait around for small talk to pass. Wariness already tugged at her fur, and if she didn't speak now, Kaihra wasn't certain she ever would.