Blacktail Deer Plateau At least for a week

What could've been a touching embrace gave way to an awkward reluctance that Nieve simply had to swallow down. Things were too different between them now for that level of familiarity. She would get to the bottom of what happened to him eventually, but for now the subject was Rusalka and the changes herein.

Ah, yeah. Had to get outta dodge for a bit, Nieve admitted. She had no reason to feel ashamed of herself for it, but she was a little sheepish that instead of confronting a problem, she'd chosen to avoid it. Rosalyn and Erzulie wouldn't run from their problems the way she had. She got the sense Reyes wouldn't, either, but maybe that was just thanks to her own guilt. He pointed out that things felt different and she bobbed her head.

With any other wolf she might've held her tongue, fearful that it would get back to the trio of sisters one way or another, but Nieve trusted Reyes. We had a few new wolves join. They seem okay but one of them, well, she's kind of... she's kind of a bitch. God, it felt wrong to say that about Ying and yet saying it lifted a weight off Nieve's chest just a little bit.