Big Salmon Lake i said i thought it would be colder

She looked around, her dark face a mask of confusion. She couldn't have been more than a year, perhaps even a few months shy. He could see her cheekbones and it made Peregrine's teeth press into his bottom lip. She was young and quite possibly starving. This was not the type of wolf he'd hoped to recruit... but if she was who he thought she was, Fox definitely owed her a favor, which meant Peregrine owed her a favor by proxy. And hadn't he once told Fox he would be happy to offer a home to the unfortunate captives?

"You look like a magpie," he said in an explanatory tone, offering a brief smile before his lips set back into a stoic line. "If you are Magpie, you might know my mate, Fox...?" he pressed, tail flicking as he moved forward to stand at the water's edge.