Mount Apikuni Those Claws Dig Deep

She wandered farther from the lake than she had intended, but it had been so long since she allowed herself such freedom that she was loathe to stop even as the sky warned of impending nightfall. Then, the sounds of a fight pulled her even farther from her claim, although when she heard the vicious roar of a cougar, she slowed her pace some. She was never one to falter in the face of danger, but the thought of never returning home to her children made a new kind of fear pool in her chest. 

The sounds stopped eventually, leaving only the noise of the mountains, and cautiously, she continued her way through the small valley, stopping when the scent of blood hung thick in the air; some belonged to the cougar but some also smelled strongly of wolf. For no other reason than she was curious to know the outcome, she tracked the stranger's blood until she found him nestled against the tree line of the forest that stretched into the taiga, a place she wasn't keen on thinking about right now. 

She paused a good distance away, releasing a low chuff so as not to startle him. If she were alone and injured, she would be in a pretty foul mood, so she didn't venture any closer yet, instead, alerting him to her presence and waiting to see his reaction.