Swiftcurrent Creek Wherever you are, this is home

Another wolf had come, and had given birth to puppies. Cygnet was repulsed by the notion of having more children around, and was wary that these two strangers might take up too many resources- resources that belonged to the true packmates of Swiftcurrent Creek. 

All it took was a new enemy to convince Cygnet that she ought finally pay Arlette and her children a visit. They were pack, she told herself; they had a right to be here, and a right to exist- and she decided that she would do what she could to make sure that Arlette's children were given an advantage over those who had just waltzed in, and multiplied like ungrateful rabbits. 

She brought a dead hare with her, and approached with her head high and her stump of a tail bristled and lifted. She avoided looking at Arric altogether, for a moment, searching instead for Arlette...And found herself distracted, suddenly, by the young children in her company. 

She frowned, but with a mouth full of rabbit, it might have been hard to see. She still felt jealous that she'd been shrugged off, as Arlette sought out a new life with Arric, the wolf she detested only a bit less than the freeloaders who had come to join the pack. Having never seen children before, she was a bit shocked. Their proportions were just....Wrong. Their ears floppy, their legs thick and short, their tails were....Well, more complete than her own, but still, almost like rat's tails. More off-putting than anything else was the fact that their heads were enormous, and their muzzles were short. 

She looked to Arlette, her gaze surprised. 

For a woman as pretty as she was, Arlette had sure made some ugly children. 

She looked to Arric- and she hated to admit it, but he, too, was nowhere near as ugly as these children.

She pitied them both as parents, but reluctantly surrendered the rabbit with a soft sigh, maintaining her distance as she oggled one child and the next, not sure if any amount of personality would be enough to make up for their hideous conformation.