Redsand Canyon there's another hill ahead.

Ruenna's tail wagged as well, mirroring the body language of her former alpha. 

"A little worse for wear," she answered honestly, "..since the mountain fell on me. On all of us." Rue shook her head. She knew that she should consider herself lucky to have made it through the earthquakes with just some back pain and a limp. 

"I couldn't find anyone from the Grove after the landslide. I thought the worst..." Truthfully, Rue recalled very little in the wake of the disaster. She had almost no memory of how she came to exit her homeland. Once she came to herself and recovered enough to travel, she had made her way slowly back to the Teekons. She had yet to visit the Strath though, frightened of what she would-- or wouldn't-- find there. 

Ruenna's expression clouded. The last thing she remembered about the event was seeing Towhee buried beneath a massive wave of earth. Could she have survived too?  

"Towhee. Is she..?"

Rue's gaze flicked anxiously between Towhee's brother and her son. Rue hated that she had to bring up Towhee's fate in front of her boy, but he seemed like a strong young man. He would have had to be, to make it through those earthquakes and the aftermath. He looked so much like his father. The metamorphosis was almost unbelievable-- it was as if as if Figgy, the little puptato, had transformed before her eyes.