Jade Fern Grove watch out, the witch is near

As she continued to speak, Howl began to abandon his first inclination that her elongated and stuttering speech was due to exhaustion. Perhaps a possible speech impediment, but nothing he could forwardly ask her, especially without knowing her personally. She went on to say she had been part of two packs in her life with one of them being Easthollow. "Easthallow. Really? I'm glad to hear they still stand. That's the pack I was referring to Eastward. Morningside was the other but they have since fallen." Normally he could not have given pack information but seeing as how she has been there before and knew their name, name dropping it again didn't seem intrusive. Morningside no longer held claim and therefore needed no privacy. "Is Valette still holding things together over there?" he asked.