Blacktail Deer Plateau Clouds are sleeping

Hope you don't mind me joining in. Edit: aw shoot I was slow, let me edit.

Koda had risen early, as he usually did, to make his rounds along the outskirts of the plateau. One of his responsibilities as a gamekeeper was to locate new sources of food for the pack. This morning, he had descended from the plateau to search the grassy plains for a small group of elk he had spotted from his high vantage point. The rest of the herd had already migrated to their winter range, so Koda guessed an injured individual was holding the group of stragglers back. If he could find them, perhaps he'd call the pack to intercept them before they wandered too far away. An elk would keep their bellies full for many days.

Koda's ears perked up as a howl rang out through the crisp autumn air. He paused, torn between going to see to the caller himself, or letting someone a little higher up in the pack's hierarchy deal with it. After a moment, he decided he should go check it out. The voice sounded urgent, and strangely familiar.

He followed the howl to it's source, only to find that Blue Willow had already beaten him there. 'Oh well, I'm here now, might as well see what's up,' he said to himself as he approached the two wolves. He nodded in greeting to the Beta female, and did a double take when he saw who had come to pay them a visit.

"Hey Perry," he greeted the other male. He wanted to ask his former alpha how he was doing in his new home, but Blue promptly requested for Peregrine to come with her. "What's going on?" Koda asked.