Greatwater Lake lost civilizations

Keeping details and assumptions vague until this thread is completed.

A visitor was at the borders. And, not necessarily a welcome one. Another female. Crossing over their borders without concern. Her scent had only but a hint of the Lake. Nothing more.

Aliki was swift in her march to confront her, but Zaahira had already arrived. An air of unsettled tension still clung in the air between the two coastal wolves. Expected, after the beat down of Selena. But that was in the past, the damage done. 

Her immediate concern was this outsider, who so brazenly waltzed on in. Unbeknownst to her, this was the mother of Khaba's cubs. And even if she had known, no doting mother should be forgiven so easily after leaving without a trace. She had believed them orphaned.

Head low between slinking shoulder blades, her hackles stood up in tussled spikes. A hard glare in cold purple eyes. A bold rise of her tail. Despite the frayed emotions between her and Zaahira, she respected her more than this outsider. A deserter of children. She stepped in line, side to side with her in defiant challenge.