There was still no word on Ferdie. Some suspicious scents, cougar prints, and some fur left behind to suggest something amiss, but they had yet to find him. Namely, her searches, no matter how tireless and how far she ranged out, remained fruitless.
Amekaze grew restless and increasingly tired out from it all. But, as she had said she would to Jace, she had descended from the spire before dawn to travel nearer to the Plateau. Just to know for sure. She jogged purposefully into the afternoon.
But she never went too close. Their borders were clear and she had felt like eyes had been on her the whole time she trekked across the foothills, so she had kept it brief -- passing through, only, with scents taken in on the fly. Nothing indicated Ferdie's presence, past or present, so she found little reason to dawdle, especially knowing the Plateau was Fox's residence now. That, of course, was part of why this was her delegated task, because frankly she wanted none of her wolves within a mile of Fox's rotten hide..
She took a path towards the hot springs, deeming them an acceptable distraction from all her failed searches, if only for a little while. The dark Rikudou strode quietly into the warm mist, head low and ears angled back, as they thickened steadily around her. She considered whether or not she should circle back towards the Plateau one last time on her way home, or to forget it entirely. At least she had some time to spare before that, and busied herself with reacquainting with the hot springs.
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