Chimera Fields The Days of Long Shadows

She smelled faint traces of many others on him. She wondered if he had met Sialuk, as she had. Or if he were a part of a pack, or on his own. Drawing back, she relaxed some, her tail lashing at her heels.

He seemed friendly. Amicable enough to strike up a conversation, with a grin. Elentari by nature though, was a little more reserved. "I am, yes. Getting to know the land." She glanced back to where the buck and his three females were, now mere brown specks in the distance. "He is. He and his group look like they will get through this season to see another spring."