Bitterroot Valley but now she won't be going back with the rest

"I'd love to share this space with you," Elowyn said. "You are very kind and I'm glad that we've met." A smile came to her lips, but she shifted her smile to a look of, well, concern wouldn't quite be the right word, but it came close.

"That's a big change," she said. "It's never fun to have those kinds of changes. I'm sorry."

Elowyn had no idea what the other wolf was wondering about her, but she answered anyway. 

"I lost my family in a flood," she said. "I found a pack a little while after, but I've ventured out on my own since then, obviously."