Cricket Creek Bog dude, that story can go anywhere.

You get my 100th! :)

With the adults so preoccupied with Colt's loss and what it meant for the pack's future, the pups had more freedom than ever. Sugar took advantage of it but did not abuse it; she strayed from the rendezvous site on her own pretty regularly (often coaxing @Avery to come with her) and she never went very far. She certainly didn't leave the territory.

But when she discovered Pox's trail and it led her toward the borders, Sugar barely hesitated in tracking down her brother. When she found him chasing crickets in the bog bordering the copse, she stopped and watched him a moment. She had no desire to scold him about being out here all by himself, though Sugar moved closer, deciding it was probably best if they stuck together out here in no man's land.

"There're some plants here I've never seen a'fore," Sugar observed, her voice a murmur. She blinked and corrected herself, "Before." She stopped within arm's reach of her brother and asked, "Did you catch anything?"