Redhawk Caldera blake's got a new face.

Fin hadn't been trying to offend him, of course. She was just. Well, she was being Fin. And being Fin meant saying the wrong things, feeling the wrong things and doing the wrong things pretty much 24/7. In truth, she couldn't exactly understand his desire to find his sister on a personal level. After all, if she strove to keep all of her siblings within reach, she'd have an entire freakin' herd to look after. No, Fin learned long ago that she was meant to be without her siblings, even though she loved them dearly. She was her own wolf and had her own future to pursue independent of whatever choices and paths they decided to make.

She felt his eyes on her as he made his closing remark. She met the gaze only briefly, knowing a pratfall when she saw one. There was an answer swimming in her head that she had no intention of sharing lest it be taken the wrong way. Fin had closed her heart off from the rest of herself with an iron barricade. She was fully determined that there would be no more romance for her in the foreseeable future, even as much as the thought of Elwood leaving the Caldera in the Spring troubled her.

"Well, you can't leave until you prove that you can actually fit 457 nuts in your mouth at the same time," she replied slowly while the corners of her lips turned upwards in a smile. It wasn't an admission, but nor was it denial. It was deflection at its finest, and she could only pray that Elwood wouldn't push the issue.