Thunder Dome The Mammy

Cashew paused, trying to figure out if Shard was telling the truth, and decided in the end that while it seemed he was related to the wolves on the mountain, he wasn't necessarily a part of their pack. "Well, t'ere go my plans of askin' yeh to put in a good word for me," She said with a wheezy cackle. "Sure your brother might take kindly to ya still, eh? Why wouldn't he be happy to see you?" She asked, oblivious to the discomfort that Shard seemed to feel. 

After all, she was a solitary creature, typically. She had spent time caring for cubs, and had only one male that she went to for the purpose of making more- but in the end, they'd split up and gone their separate ways. She'd not found the male, this year. His territory had been abandoned, which had left her with no hope of having children again.