Redhawk Caldera I'll interrogate the cat.

Hoping for one (or more) of the newcomers?! :)

She had made an effort with Gannet but Towhee wasn't ready to try with any of the latest batch of outsiders yet. She barely spent any time near the rendezvous site lately, instead hanging around the borders and performing patrol after patrol. Despite how boring and repetitive it could get, she never really tired of her circuits. They were a constructive use of her time, not to mention grounding when her thoughts and feelings were in such flux over recent events.

She was just curving along the northeastern stretch of the borders when she decided to stop for a break. It was only mid-May but the sun was beating down relentlessly, so her tongue lolled from her mouth as she sought some shade. Dropping to her hip beneath a small copse of trees, she scanned along the boundary line and squinted at the steppes and mesa in the distance.

Some other wolf might have felt an urge to explore these distant destinations, yet they scarcely held Towhee's interest for long. She dropped her eyes and began to nibble at an itch on her black hide before sighing and easing into a sphinx-like position. She could use a drink but, right now, she just wanted to sit still for a couple of minutes.