The Sunspire Fragile and stripped to the core

Most of her time had been spent on patrols -- some faster to cover the distance, others slower to really make sure there wasn't a missed point of coverage. This mountain was her land, and everyone's home now. It needed to be that as soon as possible. Today it seemed she wasn't alone, a sort-of-familiar face appeared along the border not too far away. She'd just been there a little earlier, she'd been taking her time or at least had been now that she'd stopped where a game trail crossed the border into their mountain territory. This was a spot that needed to be made unquestionably clear, and she was about done, having marked several yards of border near it in as many ways as she could think.

The boy had been quiet. Not that it was necessarily a bad thing, it was just a thing, one worth noting. There was likely a fair amount of that going on -- was anyone really happy about being forced to move like this? No. Plus there were plenty of foul things that had happened before. So! She whuffed to Kallik, a single wag of her tail because that's just how Arbiter was, Did you patrol before? A responsible child was always a nice thing. It was just unfortunate that some of her own weren't quite so eager to please her.