Blacktail Deer Plateau Seize the night

If we ever have, it's been so long that I don't remember. Well, it's good to write with you at long last. :)

A voice not yet familiar howled back, causing Koontz's heart to skip a beat. She felt both anxious and excited to get to know the other she-wolf, for the reasons aforementioned and because she'd never really known female companionship. Her parents hadn't produced many daughters and those they had were already gone by the time Koontz came along. Then, of course, she hadn't had a very feminine influence in her mother. And when the time had come to take her leave of Seahawk Valley, she'd of course taken along her brother and met up with a decidedly male traveling companion in Ariston.

Pondering all this with both wonder and amusement, Koontz waited for Pitch to arrive. When she came, the young Beta stood. She lifted her head and tail and, upon seeing Pitch's submissive posture, she stepped forward and acknowledged the Sigma with a nip to the bridge of her muzzle. Ritual concluded, Koontz stepped back, her tail giving the air a sweep before she decided to ease right back onto her haunches.

"Call me Koontz," the youth insisted, feeling altogether too young to be called something like "ma'am." "I'm glad to meet you, Pitch. Thanks for coming. I wanted—I didn't interrupt you in the middle of a hunt, did I?" the Beta asked suddenly, belatedly realizing that Pitch was out of breath and forgetting that she'd probably run here to meet her.