Greatwater Lake all swallowed in their coats

what are timelines? tastes very strange!

Thus freed from the shackles of leadership, Maegi wandered without care. No longer did a flock depend on her; no longer was she expected to be at beck and call. Her dominion was once the trees and now it was nothing, and the nothingness seemed a twisted sort of joy.

But it couldn't last, could it? For here was a black-pelted woman at the shore of the lake, and as Maegi drew closer, she found the green-blue bi-colored gaze and froze in place.

@Kotake? she asked, her voice small and weak, like that of a little girl's. She hadn't seen her half-sister in so many moons that there was only the barest of memories to lean on; this must be Kotake, for she remembered no other wolf with pelt and eyes like this. And so close to the woods. . .

Potema. Ice ran through her veins. Had her mother, her sisters, returned? To claim the forest, to kill her and all she held dear? She ran her tongue nervously over her jowls, waiting for the other's response.