Bitterroot Valley Hubba bubba

For @Vega! I hope now is a good time for it. :)

With Phoenix Maplewood sufficiently doused in the combined scents of its wolves and the pack relatively well-settled, Saena spent more and more time away from the territory. While she was familiar with the north in general, she wanted to know the surrounding area a little better. From Nochtli and Citali, she knew there was a pack upon the nearby glacier. She didn't intend to approach them at any point. She had allies in Scimitar and Bazi and in Luke, so she didn't need further aid, nor a reason for someone else to be after her.

Her mind also lingered on Wildfire and the possibility that Fox and Peregrine were not planning a war. Up until now, she'd been paranoid, believing any second that they would descend on her and kill her for existing. If that was true, then their children would be trained to attack her on sight, but that wasn't the case. Furthermore, Wildfire had seemed visibly shaken by the information. While Saena partially knew what she'd said wasn't entirely true, it was as she remembered it at the time, and only later did further details surface from the swamp of her memory.

Pushing aside thoughts of her half-sister (they actually weren't related except by a very distant thread, she suddenly realized), the alpha female continued her walk east, past the stream she'd romped with Luke at. Only when she reached a natural radish patch did she stop, lowering her nose to sniff curiously at the clustered leaves poking out haphazardly.