Northstar Vale [m] but I'm as good once as I ever was

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Easy hadn't been able to track down her nephew before she left, but she made sure that @Sumac knew she would be back soon. Her scent was slowly changing, and she didn't want to deal with that in the middle of such a large event. So she left word with him in case Dutch returned, encouraging Sumac to try and make new friends while she was gone.

And then, well — she was gone.

Northstar Vale was a place she'd never really had the chance to explore. In the past, it'd always been occupied by packs she didn't know when she was nearby. Most recently, her cousin had resided in this place, but the pack she'd been part of was no longer in residence. Easy imagined her life here, wondering at all the intervening years. They had both come so far in life, completely apart from each other. She didn't blame Meadow if the other woman didn't feel any connection to her — but she hoped they could one day be friends.

It seemed that the vale wasn't quite as empty as she thought. When Easy came across the scent of another, she followed it through the cold winter snow. The figure she found was familiar to her, somehow, but she couldn't think of when or where she might've met this young man before.

There was no time like the present, was there?

"Isn't it a little chilly to hang around up here by your lonesome?" she called out, announcing herself.