Blacktail Deer Plateau and thereby open wide the door

@Blue Willow. i figured he would know about the absence since he is her frand <3

atticus was gone.

how he had wandered away from the dotage of his mate, lasher could not imagine — and all at once he recalled dumbly that the healer had taken on double tasks once more, tending the injured male as well as supporting dante as the gunmetal man took the reins of the plateau.

a sharp flare of resentment for both peregrine and fox knifed the delta as he raced with muzzle lowered around the last place he himself had seen atticus. however, taltos' feeling toward the ruby was quickly translating itself to hatred, and his lip curled with rare anger.

pausing near a copse of birches, lasher explored them for the former beta's scent, but found nothing. a moment's time found him dashing away again, desperation lacing his heartbeats.