Fairspell Meadow Needles

Pretty, Lane thought when the wayfarer shared her name. She would have said so out loud, but her mouth was full. 

Akari didn't have much to say about her journey, it seemed. She still looked pretty freaked out, ruff lifting and lowering, eyes darting around. Lane gave what she hoped was a comforting wag of her tail. After a silent moment, Akari spoke again. She seemed to be far away, almost like she had to retreat deep within herself to find the courage to say more. 

As the wanderer spoke, Lane looked around at the snow-covered meadow, trying to see things the way Akari described them. Lane had been a nomad her whole life; she had never thought to fear the unknown. What Akari described as dangerous, to Lane that was just.. existing. 

Once the herb poultice tasted like it had just the right amount of marigold, Lane chewed a couple more times and then spat into onto the ground. 

"Paws?" she prompted, holding her own up in the air to demonstrate. She would begin applying the poultice once Akari offered her paws. 

"Well, you're in the Teekon Wilds," Lane began, gesturing vaguely toward.. everything. "And it's really not that bad. Except there were those awful blizzards last month.. and the bear attacks.." Lane fell quiet for a minute, realizing that Akari probably wouldn't find any of that comforting. She switched tactics, deciding to answer the question that Akari had actually asked. 

"Hmm, lets see... here in the Flatlands you have.. Ivory Rose." Lane tilted her head toward the Blackfeather Woods, which from here were just a dark spot on the northern horizon. "They're in those woods just ahead. They're a new pack, led by Zephyr and Rowan, who're our age. The woods are pretty, uh.. spiritual," Spooky was a better word for it, in Lane's opinion. "..If you go for that kind of thing.."

"Then on the other side of that mesa.." Lane nodded toward the west. "Is the Redhawk Caldera. A couple generations live there, it's a familial pack." That was about all Lane knew about them. "Then further west.. my pack is in Firefly Glen. And on the mountain nearby is Moonspear, our parent pack." Lane paused. "Almost done," she assured Akari, reaching toward her supplies. All she had left do do was wrap up each paw.