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Nyra glanced to Dirge, her lip twitching slightly as he spoke 

you were turned away and you just approach the next band you find? That's brazen  

She twitched her ears as the male's eyes landed on her and he spoke again:  Other than poor judgment on your part, why us? We've other pressing matters to attend to—you coming up on us in this place of death is a bit more than poor taste

Nyra flicked her tail a little, taking a slow breath before she answered "I don't have an answer to why you. But, I'm just looking for a pack to belong to. The pack I was born in is long gone, dead to the fangs of illness and bloodshed. The pack I'm from is Direfang. Once located somewhere far to the south. The general scent of them is old roses and rain. Though it's faint, if you sniff my pelt, there may still be some traces of my old home on me." 

The mammoth she-wolf looked back to Hydra briefly before she continued "If you and your packmates wish for me to leave, I will do so, and unless invited, I won't approach any of you or anyone who smells like your pack again." Her voice was even and gentle, her stance ever still one of honesty and lack of aggression. 

I'm so tired of being alone... Nyra thought inwardly, flattening her ears again.

"To give clarity, the only reason I'm not dead with the rest of my former pack is because my grandmother was a well-respected elder down in the far south of here. The invading pack gave me the choice to run and live, or stay and die like everyone else had. It's been little over half a year since then." Nyra's eyes saddened as she remembered that dawn, when the neighboring pack had crashed into their territory, demanded the land, killed anyone who retaliated, including her parents. 
Nyra had been with her grandmother in the elder's den at the time, and the age-old alphess died at her paws. The general of that pack seemed to have taken mercy with Nyra having witnessed Gaia's death first hand. Maybe that was why he even gave her the choice instead of killing her without a second thought?