Broken Antler Fen curiosity killed the cat

hoping for puppies! @Sylvie @Hymnal @Roswell @Diantha @Jasmine (can forward date it if she'd be back by then)

The pack's leader, Eljay, had escorted Sphyra from the borders. She was here to visit her father, but Eljay had suggested that maybe she could meet some of her — apparently — sort-of-relatives if she wanted to, since her father didn't seem to be nearby right now. Maybe he'd be back by the time she had acquainted herself with them. She had agreed reluctantly, mostly because she didn't want to have wasted the trip all the way over here.

Sphyra only knew the pups from her pack — her siblings and Killdeer — so this was new to her, meeting other children. Yet when they drew close to the den where the children lived with Eljay and Maia, she found herself getting just a bit curious. They were younger than her, that much she knew by now, and she watched in anticipation as they approached, feeling strangely nervous (a normally fairly foreign sensation to Sphyra).