Dragoncrest Cliffs so, i robbed you blind.

just getting this in sobeille's timeline, keeping references and timeline vaguey. can be a RO or can be a thread, ill probably archive in a few days if no reply. <3

enemies at every turn.

sobeille spent the next several days canvassing. maman, tante, her siblings, all gone. she searched for each of their scents, backtracking over and over with a growing sense of futile irritation. after countless hours, she came across the faded scent of chani and then, as if pulling one thread from many, came to frozen scars in the snow that spoke clearly of struggle.

there was a story here waiting to be deciphered. her brow bent in frustration as she studied each pawprint, nosed each long score in the earth, scratched and overturned everything she possibly could.

scouring winds and time erased any remaining clues. sobeille struck at one set of prints in the snow with frustration, throwing back her head in a bellowing howl.

who?

her mind raced -- it was impossible, or so she thought, that cen and sivaak arrived before her. the tracks in the snow were bled of their scents, suggesting their marks were dated; whatever happened here transpired well in the past.

the creek wolves? she thought this equally unlikely; she believed them too soft. maman and chacal were wolves both hardened by the season; it would take a significant number and power to overwhelm them. and chani -- chani was so fast!

what of her sisters and brothers? and the men? svalinn and val where where? sobeille thumbed through a troubling index of thoughts.

she, yura, and astera had no hope of countering whatever hidden power had stormed sapphique. sapphique's allies must be informed of this; the moonpacks notified, and those in eresta sent for.

sobeille would not stand for this. this was her family and her home. hatred boiled hideously within her as she stalked away from the marks in the snow.  and though she had no specific target yet, only sobeille knew what appalling things she was capable of once she found them.