Blacktail Deer Plateau You need to find yourself a girl, mate.

Throws challenge dart at rank table --- ROLL: 4

Reyes felt as if something had changed when he'd returned from his trip, but he couldn't place exactly what it was. The plateau was preternaturally quiet while the snow had blustered in from out of seemingly nowhere, and while he had experienced some light snowfall on his trip, he had thought the season had been coming to a close. Instead, in the day or so after his return, a brisk wind had carried giant clouds overhead and now the trees were coated in a thick new layer of white. The ground was similar where the boughs did not protect the soil - there were slick areas too, but most of it was the crunchy ice-riddled blanket that he did not enjoy at all.

The sky was dark and a blue-grey like a particularly bad bruise. Flurries of white blurred the paths within the forest, obscured what he could view from the exposed plateau limits along the south edge of the claim, making everything bleed in to white. Reyes entertained himself by doing patrol after patrol; each time he carved a fresh path through the snow and when he came back for another circuit, the path was inundated again. It made the work harder on his body but he refused to let the weather dictate what he could or could not do.

That said, he finished a fifth circuit before finally deciding he was too worn-out to continue, and stalked through the trees to the pack's central rendezvous site. There he saw a few others moored by the snow; none really caught his attention except for @Raleska, who appeared to be distracted with an old bone or something. Deciding that he wanted what she held, he chuffed as he approached and then snapped at the object, seeking to take it for himself. As he did this his tail raised and draped along his spine, held aloft like a proud flag in dominance.