OOC: Located at Vlar's previous and most likely permanent Den - Further description and images will be on her extra page once I get them.. :)
Her return to Grizzly Hollow and subsequent meeting with Jaysyek had shown the white female that once and for all - she was no longer welcomed on the lands of the pack.. Something she had accepted the night she'd left for the second time, her own selfish desires drawing her away. Thoughts of Raigo and Borden - both wolves she wished to see again had pulled her paws away from the pack borders, and far to the north - where she'd encountered the injured and emaciated Borden. Their... Conversation had left further pain in her breast, a darkened weight that settled onto her shoulders, dragging her down, forcing her into servitude to her emotions.
The fresh injury over her right eye, one that took her sight was still weeping blood, the crimson liquid leaving goopy tracks down her ivory face. Her walk wasn't limping or stunted - after all it wasn't her legs that were injured mostly.. Though the females head hung low enough between her shoulders that her nose just barely brushed the ground. Plumed tail that had once arched animatedly and dominantly over her back hung low, the longer strands of white fur brushing the ground and picking up debris of all kinds. There was a single destination in mind - a cave nestled in the southern edge of the Mountain of Dire.
The secluded location appealed to the broken lady, nestled in a place that hardly any canine traffic passed through.. Thankfully. The trees and lands began to look familiar, and with a relieved sigh, she saw the half moon clearing that marked her den site. A weary smile tugged at her lips as she crossed the line of trees, stopping a moment in the clearing before moving to the pool of water that had been hollowed into the rock bedding on the ground. The water was the sweetest thing she had ever tasted - naturally filtered by the rains and waters that washed down the mountain to dribble steadily into the pool. It had deepened since her last visit -and she could make out deep claw scores at the bottom, wondering what creature had deigned to deepen the water source.
A nervous look took over the ivory female and she lifted her single working eye to the triangular mouth of her cave before creeping towards it. An inquisitive nose entered the opening before scenting about - finding nothing...untoward.. stale musty scents. She stepped further into the den, the entrance a bit hard to squeeze into - but once she cleared the mouth, it opened up into a much larger interior that could easily and comfortably have fit three or four adults.. And it was warm - thanks to the underground hot spring that flowed beneath the ground. She turned after ensuring her den was clear. and padded out into the sunlight, lifting her muzzle to look up at the sky she could see above the trees. There was plenty of daylight left..
Preferring to remain in solitude, the white female ventured out of her clearing and began the arduous task of gathering as many nasty looking branches, bushes and other things she could find.. to drag them to the ring of trees that surrounded her home - planting them close enough together that she kept snagging her fur on them. It would take her weeks, if not months to create enough of a 'barrier' that seemed imposing and natural enough to keep other wolves out.. or from venturing into her home. She just.. wanted to be left alone. Her jaws locked once more around the thick, thorny branch belonging to a bush, dragging it towards the fortifications surrounding her home.