Verdigris Ravine home?

S'ari did not quite understand everything Kusuma said, but it sounded as if the woman had grown up around humans. Humans that had... observed her and her mother, and fed them? She'd never seen a dog before, but the ones who came to the Tribe and spoke of humans also spoke sometimes of dogs, strange canine-like creatures who walked at the humans' sides and protected them. Whatever situation Kusuma had been in before sounded sort of like, except that Kusuma had said she didn't like the humans.

Then Kusuma asked about jackals, and S'ari shook her head. S'ari has never heard of this jackal before. She studied Kusuma for a moment, this woman who looked like a coyote, but... didn't at the same time. Is that what Kusuma is? Part jackal? Did her mother mate with this creature? Not that it mattered to S'ari. All were Tribe. It was only that she was curious about this canid who could apparently mate with coyotes and make babies. Wolves could do it too, which S'ari always found a bit strange, given that wolves and coyotes were often at odds.