Heron Lake Plateau the burning bed

-You're not worth the energy, crapbag,- Towhee signed with a sneer. But there was no heat whatsoever behind the jab. Hell, one might even call this banter. -I'll leave you two alone,- she added, gesturing suggestively at the she-wolf cuddling ever closer to her brother. -Just don't bone on Orca's grave. Seriously.-

After giving them both a look, Towhee sidled away to the edge of The Roost, then picked her way across the ice, carefully walking in in the footprints they'd left behind earlier in the thin crust of snow.