Blacktail Deer Plateau [j] the night's watch

If you guys want, you can skip Crete (even though it's his joining thread) because it's not like he's gonna have anything to say. :p

Left ear twitched absently towards Peregrine, giving his litter mate half of his attention, while his sea green eyes scanned the lands within Black Deer Plateau (as Crete knew it courtesy of Perry) harbored the other half of his attention. Peregrine seemed to be mostly musing to himself in regards to Osprey and Hawkeye’s absences - since it wasn’t, as Peregrine was fully aware (and had stated moments before), like Crete was going to reply. Even if he could have been able to speak, there was nothing to talk about, anyway. Peregrine already knew all the ‘latest news’ - at least, as “new” as Crete could offer. After he had been forced out of Flightless Falcons he had no knowledge of what had followed in those critical hours after the fact. A black mass began to take to the shape of a canine as it seemed to melt out of the snow covered distance, forming a distinctly wolven form as it approached them. Crete automatically assumed that the large, black she wolf approaching them was this mysterious Hawkeye, though this assumption wavered with hesitation a bit as she did not automatically take a clearly dominate posture - though the way she walked spoke that she was the monarch, Crete had been two years of practice reading body language - even though he could understand words just fine.

She addressed Peregrine first - barely seeming to acknowledge the mute beyond inquiring about him (at least this was how Crete took it) - though Crete was not perpetually miffed. It gave him a chance to study her, taking in account Peregrine’s opinions of her, attempting to form his opinions about her. Her methods were a bit…unusual from what Crete expected of an Alpha - Aether had always introduced himself at the borders first, stating his name and making his title/rank clear. Of course, Crete took this to further prove his assumption that she was taken with Peregrine despite their crass and unusual (as Perry told it, anyhow, though Crete did not take his littermate for a liar of any sort) first meeting. Interested in what Peregrine had to say about him to attempt to get him access to Black Deer Plateau, Crete inclined his head towards his brother, keeping Hawkeye in sight so he could watch her out of the corner of his eye.

Crete did not trust enough (borne of Tyrannus' betrayal) to keep her out of his sight - even for a small while.

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