Blacktail Deer Plateau When we were kings

Enter creeper Kaihra :D Figured she had to meet Dante one day or another!

Kaihra had been spending more time away from the Plateau. Though she'd been drawn to the land in the summer months, the arrival of colder days paired with the land's uncanny resemblance to the one she'd left behind reminded her too much of home. So the dark woman took to wandering the flatlands, searching for prey beyond their borders and only delving into the territory's heart when she had meat to store in their common caches.

Such was her aim today as she slipped among the Plateau's trees, stripped naked by the recent autumn gales. The legs of her catch dragged through the fallen leaves, a skinny hare she'd brought down earlier that morning. It was nothing spectacular, but since her fishing failure at the river, she'd kept her paws firmly on land. Skinny hares seemed to be the most abundant prey these days. She imagined they would only get thinner.

She moved through the trees in silence, but soon her ears turned at the sound of movement and she flashed her gaze to the right. Catching a glimpse of furry movement through the spaces between the trunks, Kaihra lowered herself on instinct, unwilling to be seen until she identified the other. Her habitual departures from the Plateau had rendered many of her days to be ones spent alone, and she had come to lack the social graces that seemed to come so naturally to her packmates even more. So Kaihra remained hunched behind the trees, watching him through calculating eyes and hoping for the wind to blow her way so she could identify the packmate who travelled nearby.