Lion Head Mesa sea witch [wp]

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The ceremony had quite captured Sorana's attention. Such a grand display and collection of wolves! Such grand words shared by the couple! Even when all was said and done, Sorana continued to watch the stage so raptly that when Tierra barked out her mother's name, the girl visibly started.

She wasn't shy by nature but found herself shrinking back a little from the brash red-and-grey she-wolf swaggering toward them. A friend of Teya's, she supposed. Sorana studied her for a moment, reminded for some reason of her father — the similarity of fur colour, nothing more — which made her stomach cinch with hurt.

She tore her gaze away and spotted a little blue-grey girl looking at her, only to turn and hurry away into the crowd. Sorana watched her go, shocked to see someone like her — small and young — in the role of a party servant.