Witch's Marsh haunt

"a red w-wolf on t-that ridge b-back t-there told me a-about the p-pups." as lestan gave a description of qiao and stormchaser, neither of whom he knew by name, he wondered where these two had come from.
the way the young male stood forward kept lestan from approaching, despite the fact he would have liked to stop calling across the morass by now.
"i-i — you're — keep h-heading s-south out of th-this s-swamp, if you n-need a p-place to go. you'll f-find a p-pack called s-swiftcurrent creek. my c-cousin, akavir m-mayfair, he's the l-leader. s-say i sent you. lestan."