Rosewater Oasis [P] [M] on this road goes no one

It took a while for anyone to respond. It seemed the desert was more empty than it had once been, or perhaps no one wanted to mate with her. She grinned at that. Others in her past--other wolves--had called her a pain in the ass several times. Perhaps that was it.

When someone did show up, it was a wolf. Well. Candle and Zoug would simply have to bite their tongues, for she would not turn a wolf away if he had come to ease the ache in her. A wolf could give her children just as easily as a coyote, and it did not matter to her the species of the father.

Come to give S'ari children, wolf? she asked, and grinned at him, not getting up from where she lay by the pool. Only know this: S'ari's children are hers, and will be raised by her. This one is a wolf, and would not be welcome among S'ari's Tribe, unfortunately. But they will know of their father, and she will send them on their way when they are older if they wish to know this one. Yes? If he did not agree to these terms, she would turn him away and find another. It was tradition that any roaming male wolf who impregnated a female of the Tribe must be on his way and let the mother raise the pups. That was the way of the Desert. If he'd been a coyote like her, she would have offered him a place in the Tribe, but she could not. Alas.