trust issues

OG Magpie · February 21, 2015, 02:02 PM

Vague since I'm not sure what's going to go down in the goat thread... concussions are good for that. Hopefully, it's safe to assume she's still part of RHC? :P

Magpie didn't remember much of what happened yesterday— the fog was beginning to lift, but trying to recall the details of her return was like trying to see through mud. She was here, though, and that must mean it hadn't been all bad. At least she was still here for Fox, regardless of where she stood with her other pack mates. Still, she kept her distance— keeping to her den to rest, allowing her body some time to heal. As her mind slowly began to clear, the pain in her body became more apparent... but even the details of her injuries were jumbled and confused.

She chewed what grass she could find and easily reach from her den, hoping to ease the nausea, but she had yet to find herbs that would cloud the pain. Her time was spent mostly dozing, hardly even thinking of the tension that seemed to spiderweb throughout the caldera. Fox's voice, however, interrupted her sleepy haze, and Magpie came to attention. Puppies. She had predicted that her sister would give birth around this time, in the days following the new moon. Gritting her teeth against the pain that flowed through her entire body, Magpie exited her den and moved as quickly as she could to greet her Alpha.

Although her movements were slow and pained, still moving in an awkward three-legged gait, the little black-and-white wolf arrived before most of the rest of the pack. Peregrine was there already— of course he was— and she swallowed hard, sneaking a glance at him from the eye she could still see out of. She remembered with startling clarity that he had subtly warned her to tell Fox of what she had said about him before he could, but her efforts to impress the alpha male had taken more time than she intended. Had he told the fiery woman? She looked calm, stoic, and round— Magpie could gauge no meaning.

She sank to her haunches, if only because she couldn't yet stand for long without pain, her posture low and submissive.