Whitebark Stream been dreaming of this since a child

the merger with whitebark stream had been swift; swifter still the unification of their numbers and their combined claim solidified. none of them had sought to linger and continue trying to lay claim to the place where bhe's mate had attacked them and potentially spread the pale plague like the epidemic it was rumored to be. once just thought to be whispers of half-senile old men ...salvatore knows better now. wise as he thinks himself to be, he sticks to himself and puts distance between himself and those of empyrean suspecting that he wears the fool's crown of coward and suspicious that they might've brought it with them.

in his self-isolation he is working to learn the borders that the whitebarkian wolves have established; familiarizing. pause is given as the leaders' howl rang up into the air. along with other's his voice joins the chorus of victory and when it tapers off he returns to his patrol; working eye focusing on the unfamiliar terrain.