Stone Circle walk through the woods with me

Vale is still acclimating and that’s something Tauris can wholly relate to. “You and me both.”

Maybe that’s the sort of admission the nornir shouldn’t be making. But she’d never been an archetype of her role, anyway, and it wouldn't be like her to belay the truth in lieu of gathering every creature with a tail together for a cheery round of ‘kumbaya’.

“We’ve expanded so quickly,” she explains. And now there was going to be pups. It was overwhelming.

When Vale mentions the pup-scent her mind drifts to Taktuq. She too had been giving the new family quiet time, and as a result hadn’t seen her friend for weeks. She missed her sorely.

“Those are the alpha’s children. They were born last week,” she offers the systir a smile between bites. “Where are you from, Vale? Are you new to the valley?”