Cedar Sweep pass the wasabi

@Bat and tegan hadn't found much of anything. if there was any sort of trail, it was stale and certainly not from ceara's most recent scouting trip. tegan was becoming increasingly frustrated, especially since he was growing worried and on top of all this-- he was supposed to be teaching. he didn't have fucking time to be teaching, he needed to find his aunt. 

he kept trying to think of lil tidbits to tell her, but tegan was too focused on this mission to properly think about it. brow furrowed, tegan muttered. "we're looking for scents-- or blood or... fuck, there's literally nothing," he stopped in his tracks, tail lashing suddenly behind him, "she didn't go this way, we would've found something stronger." maybe she went southwest, and not southeast. god damn it. 

tegan looked to bat, brows furrowing. he was about to suggest that they try the west, but a shadow danced over him, forcing him to look up. X. tegan was surprised, but a little relieved. if X had come and found them this early on, it meant he found something. the bird swooped, landing before the pair and dropping before him a tuft of fire-red fur. his brow furrowed, though he knew it wasn't necessarily bad news. their winter coats were growing in by now. 

"she's north," was all tegan said, and the bird cawed, wings flapping. fucking phenomenal. they needed to travel north. at least, tegan thought, this meant they would have a trail to follow.