Swiftcurrent Creek Now you know I'm paper-thin

Arric didn't touch Reverie and he didn't touch the puppy. There was something off in the way Reverie spoke, wooden and wrong. She had her emotions there, but for a wolf whose whole focus was other's and how they reacted and what he had observed. Something wasn't right. He put it to grief at losing Lestan for a time and the trauma of her birth. That was what he assumed it to be.

He gave a sharp nod. That she is. Then he slowly backed back up. Even if she invited him, he knew that some mother's could be fickle it was their own instinct of self preservation and saving the lives that they had made.