Swiftly doth these paws tread {Joining}

I went into a meeting right in the middle of writing this, so it might stop making sense halfway through lol

Finley usually didn't make a habit of traipsing along the borders of the packlands on patrol. She wasn't a warden, nor did she enjoy the endlessly boring task. But, Peregrine and Fox were effectively indisposed what with the alpha female coming into heat and her mate being... a guy, basically. So, it was left up to Fin and Elwood to run the pack in their absence. It often struck her as unfair, but that was just Fin being selfish and grumpy. They'd done plenty of work while she was laid up with physical and emotional injuries, so really she was just making it up to them by pulling the extra weight.

She wasn't far from the source of the howl when it went up, and so whoever the stranger was that the beta came upon did not have too horrendously long to wait. It was a wolf she didn't recognize--a male wrapped in gold and rust with eyes like clover in the spring. Pulling on her best beta-wolf impression, she trotted up to him, curiosity upon her dominantly raised features. "You rang?" Fin said as she came within a respectable distance.