Northstar Vale My crystal nails.

the tension was swift and visceral.

wolves, already filling the canyon. too many of them. she and towhee with new children, meadow perhaps to follow.

"we cannot assume they mean to do us harm," tamar said softly, though with a firmness carried in her gentle voice. she smoothed her fur. "i will go as an emissary. i know the canyon. and lady ruenna thought of me as a peacemaker."

her sons, still so new! but tamar was not certain she trusted the task to any other.

she waited for arsenio to interject, but before she spoke: "perhaps reyson would be a fitting companion. he is a soldier. it will signal that we are not without strength."