Northstar Vale Where to Start

no worries! i had her at the edge RE but wrote the end of my first reply like she had come further inside :D

snapped to immediate attention by the voice of her packmate, teya began to shudder as if she were caught in some hidden gale. the next moment she had slipped into visibility, tailtip wiggling between her clenched thighs. "reiko?" came her wondering voice, skittering spilled-marble across the distance between them.
this was not reiko, but teya of few coherent thoughts only knew the single name, and therefore reiko had slipped with a notch into her lexicon as word that meant friend.
widewater eyes warily watched the other; teya was desperate for any sign that she would not be immediately clipped from existence by a larger set of teeth than her own.