Big Salmon Lake cover the face, blanket the body

Aningan sounded of sound mind that he would not permit the witch back into their fold. One ear twitched as she thought on this for a moment, nodding to Ying as she arrived to the thought that Rusalka knew of her actions and had punished her in that way. She wondered if Raleska had gone with her, or if she had stood alongside Rusalka to watch her leave. They had left Caiaphas for dead... unless she remained with Merrick and his dark companion, which Hydra imagined would be her next move if she had any survival instinct. 

The next question asked caused Hydra to look just beyond Ying for a moment before her gaze returned back to her. It was something I worked toward for all of my life, even when I did not know it. Now I seek to carve out this Wilderness as a place where my family can roam freely without fear of being attacked by those whose intentions are simply to harm others. To keep them fed throughout the famine before any stranger, as well as my allies, she drawled, thinking of the Nightwalkers. She ought to visit them, though keeping all in line at Moonspear was her priority at present as the she-wolves came into their season. She imagined Vengeance had his hands full with all of the women that had come into age, in any case.