Sea Lion Shores Freaks and Geeks

Pump did not know, how to count, but it was more than few days already, since she had become a member of a Horizon Ridge - a small pack, where not a single wolf was related to each other - and already had done a bit of exploring. For her lazy self that was quite an achievement, since she preferred not to leave the safe premises, unless the hunger was really, really bad.

But the Sea lion shores were worth getting up and being visited again.

For a very simple reason - where there were a lot of animals, there tended to be corpses too and she had been lucky enough to find one a day or two earlier, eaten herself sick with unfamiliar, fat and rotten meat and suffered bouts of "runny insides". This did not deter Pump from returning - Food never waits - her grandma had said and it sure did not.

But just as she arrived at the exact spot (that's what she thought), where she had left the pieces of her last meal, she was unsatisfied to see that there was someone there already. What's worse - no signs of her meal. This sparked anger - her fur bristled, tail came up and she eyed the stranger in an unfriendly manner. "Oy, you, black beauty!" she barked out loud.