Bearclaw Valley Ladybugs will flee you, wolves run wild in you

Not mandatory for anyone, Aventus is just rallying the troops. Merrick and Astara tagged for reference but the former can always gate crash!

It was time now for Ursus to pick up its pieces. Time for Bruin-jaw to usher them into a new era, centered around the protection of its newest. Whatever had come before, Ursus was now a pack of primarily family, and those who were not his blood were, he hoped, at least loyal enough to hold the title. Time for them to prove their worth.

From the glade where @Astara slept with the newborns and @Merrick lingered as sentinel, Aventus prowled with purpose to the flowerbeds of Rivenstone. The surrounding foliage wasn't as well-maintained as it usually was, with the pack's numbers dwindling and his parents recently occupied, but the wildflowers were beginning to transform from young buds to full-fledged blooms, so the view was inviting all the same. Aventus spared no time or thought for the beauty of it, himself; he tramped through them almost without regard and came to stand in the center of the clearing.

Then he tilted his muzzle to the sky and called for the remaining wolves of Ursus, for @Solaria and @Ashlar and @Arielle, to attend him for assignments.