Whitebark Stream is it a sin to find

Following her return from the neighbouring Maplewood, Kaori was yet to leave the pack’s land again; she did not want to travel far and the snowfall the day prior served as reason enough to go nowhere. There were many she was yet to familiarise herself with, many that she knew she should get to know—but she kept to herself anyway. Whilst the dragoness was far more open nowadays than in her youth, that did not keep her fears at bay following her coupling with the scarred man. She did not fear what might result from it, the thought of motherhood not only enticing but something she knew about—after all, she did have a hand in the rearing of her younger siblings, as did the rest of her family. But the days leading up to the discovery, whether the seed would take root or not unknown, was nerve-wracking, to say the least.

Seeking a distraction, Kaori put herself to work that day. After discovering a cluster of birch trees within the surrounding woodland—few of which were nearly felled by the beavers, lingering at an angle, cradled and kept from collapsing by the other birches—she began digging. When Salvatore found her that day, she would be digging through the snow at the base of the fallen birches, seeking to carve a den into the earth below.