Dragoncrest Cliffs fulfill.

the hunting of it had sapped her strength, but erzulie dragged homeward through the snow a young piglet, found nestled in the trembling blackpine of the drowned sound where she had once lost scarab.
killed not easily at all, chilled in the shadow of that place, its body had smeared her gilded pelt with blood.
erzulie paused now in the drifts, panting.
a call for @Vex, their newest; she had not yet spent time with him, and would see how the son of kaertok fared with helping her to deliver the kill for the remainder of the distance to sapphique.

Creeping along the cliffside, low, slinking, at times skittering—there came the sinuous figure of a young wolf.

His head snaked at the level of his chest. His nose probed at piles of snow, sedge, and stone alike; but froze immediately upon hearing a call, and thusly spied upon a woman further along.

She was vibrant like the dawn and he coyly stared, gulping cold air while searching for familiar smells. The smell of meat was prevalent enough to coax him closer. A lick of the lips, a shine in the eye.

when the call first rises for him, vex hesitates fearing that it's arbiter come back for him ...but realizes in the seconds later that the voice is all wrong. led by curiosity and the fact that it would be horribly rude to ignore a direct summons, vex makes his way towards where the call rose from; long legs carrying him quickly across the short distance. when he arrives upon the scene, he sees the woman draped in an elegant pelage of gold, cinnamon and cream, stained with blood — no doubt from the kill at her paws.

for now, the third party goes unseen as he approaches erzulie, unspoken question in his eyes.

i wasn't sure if komet was close enough to really be detected so i edited my original post to say that vex didn't notice him.

vex arrived quickly. the harlot gave him a warm look of curious approval, and would have said something to that end, had not her honed senses rippled with a warning.
and so in the next several seconds, erzulie was silent, her guardian's gaze sweeping the sound-bound terrain with a seeking expression. "vex, help me to get dis back," she said firmly, though as the boy presumably began to move, the obsidian gave one more glance across the landscape before she fell to help him.

Were he so bold to creep close enough, to reach for the dead meat that the woman watched over, he would have felt warm again and well. Instead he merely watched — and it was good that he did. 

The burly silhouette of another wolf, burnished with a ginger composite coat this time, drew close to the woman. They shared words but it had been so long since the ghost had heard anything like language that he did not immediately perceive them; they were only noises, and as they did not sound like warnings directed his way, he began to move along again.

Wherever they went the boy followed. He gave them ample space, utilizing the falling snow to his advantage while he stalked.

oopsie, sorry about the wait on this!

not quite the keen guardian vex liked to pretend he was, the ghostly male went unnoticed as his attention focused upon erzulie. he grasps the young piglet betwixt his jaws and begins to half carry and half drag it along; determined to prove his worth. sapphique was not legion, he knew and he did not get any sort of free pass for being the alpha's son. perhaps, he considers, that is part of the overall appeal of it. the freedom and the knowledge that he would have to work if he wanted to keep his place among them.

to see what he could become beyond the bully he's been for most of his life.

the weight of the piglet is distributed a bit more evenly as erzulie moves to assist him.

no worries! figured we could fade this and have a more updated one if you'd like? <3

together they took the prey back to where sapphique waited. and though erzulie saw that no one followed, her senses remained intensified for the remainder of their journey until a patrol took her out again.