Noctisardor Bypass i could go off the deep end

Grub never cried or talked back (or at all...). She followed orders and behaved herself, for the most part. But when an opportunity presented itself to practice her stealth, she took it. She slipped away from the den and almost immediately found Kaertok's scent trail. She instinctively followed it, not because he was her father but because he was today's prey.

Her parents had taken her on a few short trips around the territory lately, though she had never ventured so far, nor ever been on her own. Grub reveled in it. She was able to track without distraction or rebuke, creeping along through the rainy bypass until she finally spotted the Tribunus ahead.

He was not alone. In fact, there were three other wolves present. Grub crept toward a nearby bush and slithered beneath it to observe. The strangers intrigued her, her eyes bouncing between them as the group exchanged words she couldn't quite make out. Even from all the way back here, she could sense the tension and read it in her father's posture.

She remained hidden and motionless, though her lips skinned back from her teeth.