Luneshale Pass I'll be as honest as you'll let me; I miss your early morning company, if you get me

For @Safiya <3

The small cache was growing. Panacea tended it daily, adding small kills and sorting out the meat that was beginning to spoil. He ate those morsels himself; a small self-punishment, though for what he wasn't sure. For existing, perhaps.

He was dropping off a skinny desert hare when an unfamiliar scent drifted to him on the wind. Another packmate he didn't know yet. Panacea went still, ears lifting as his gaze turned toward the source of the scent. Searching; dreading the moment he would have to introduce himself and try to remember how to act normal.