Grouse Thicket geimbreika

ensio was angry. heda felt that he had more to lose than her. his father had been the leader of the glacier wolves. the pack was his birthright. or maybe it had never been, and that was why he was angry.
either way, the snapping and chewing and hard energies rising from ensio slowly put her on edge. "i'm gonna go up the coast," she mumbled. "take a few days. a week. get my head together. then i'll go back. talk to them."
she stood.
"maybe we'll run into each other again. but — it was nice, you know. being in a pack with you, ensio." the smile she offered was genuine and sad. she was secretly relieved that her brief crush on him had only been friendship in the end.
heda did not think she could have handled another abandonment.