A Change of Pace

The dark she-wolf got up to greet Thistle, and lowered herself to her haunches again when the other female did. She nodded at the question. "Yes. Her name is Blue Willow. Your kindness and healing abilities remind me of her." She briefly wondered if she was just "saying" that her eyes was better, but Hawkeye wiped the thought away, immediately knowing that she wouldn't just say that — she would try to help.

"So," she started. "We don't know each other very well, and I thought we could get to know one another. You not only kept my daughter safe, you also fought beside me against a cougar. Not many would do that, especially a wolf that doesn't even know me." The midnight wolf would be forever grateful to the blue-eyed female before her.