Hideaway Strath My heart keeps bleeding, I need you now.

Their packmate was safe; that was a relief to Rue.

"Thanks, Dorea. Would you bring him here?" Rue called back to the helpful girl. The packmate that Rue had originally scented was unfamiliar to her, and this was not the time for any of them to be strangers to one another. Rue had been put in charge of completing a head count in Asterism Grove, after all. 

Rue watched the edge of the undergrowth and waited. The mystery packmate must be on the small side, if he had been able to squeeze into the brush the way Dorea had. Likely he was a child as well.