The Heartwood All your life

Heph had not been quite patrolling, but she had been letting herself wander in the wake of caching the leg of the pronghorn that she had helped hunt and had kept to the fringes of the territory. She let her legs stretch through the coolness of the autumn air and the warmth of its sun as she noted the surroundings. It was surprising to her the way the time passed, she had already stayed longer than anticipated and yet even with only a scant while left until winter she found the time both all too long and all too short. She wondered if they had managed to prepare enough for Dreven to declare that they would stay, whoever they were at this point.

She debated the merits of seeking out Dreven once more to impart the information that she had gleaned from Shey, but she was not sure how reliable it was having passed through many mouths since its source and she would feel better about it if she was able to confirm for herself how true they were likely to be. Nevertheless, she was not seeking him out when she came upon him stretched out in the sun. A short dry laugh escaped her lips as she came upon the fringes of the clearing. "Ahh spread out like this - should I leave you and go find Atka?" She could certainly see what her friend saw in the wolf physically and she had found his company better than she had expected even if that and Atka's charms were not enough to make her stay for much longer.