The days were meant to be longer, but this one had gone too quickly. The night sky was fighting for its turn to rule while the sun had began to descend. Jaysyek was making another round in the amber light for any more small monsters of madness. They had been lucky to find the fox dead, and nothing new to take its place. Jayse didn't feel lucky. Like the stretches of winter, she couldn't help wonder how long this would go on too. Would Spring be its end or was there one? Thoughts flashed to those scents, the words Borden had said, the River wolf. Would killing those wolves do it? Her instincts were telling her to run, not to attack, not to touch, to stay far, far away. Would it be enough? A low sigh crumbled in her throat, escaping from her mouth to a silver wisp. She shouldn't feel this old. The white lady continued onward, checking every inch with her nose for anything that could be a potential threat. The slim trails of animals were not tainted with that...poison. Driving steps, she turned around, cris-crossing over her same line of path on her way back to the den. Back to try to sleep before starting the madness all over again.
Wary feet fell quickly onto the packed snow, she had barely moved away from the border when the dark Guardian's voice began to rise in the forest calling for her. White crown titled, ears tipping forward to capture its meaning, it seemed he was announcing something to all of them. He must have someone with him. Why she thought that she wasn't sure, it might have been something in his voice, but she found her steps lighter while making her way to him. These times the smallest of things was good news, and desperately needed. White tail aloft, eyes swept through the timber searching for his shadowed coat. The Grizzly Hollow leader would be greeted by two black shadows, rather than one. Blue, and golden eyes drifted to the steel colored pair she knew too well, because she had seen many a thing within them, and wondered what she would find now. This couldn't be just anyone. "Kade," she murmured with a lift of her nose in welcoming him home. Quickly her mismatched eyes took in the lady, and Jayse recognized her but only by her fiery eyes. A mountain wolf who had strayed in the night, but admitted to coming for nothing. The leader would have grinned, but she did not, she accessed her seeing she had been without a pack for awhile. Life still sparked there, and Jayse made no mistake how much she must mean to her dark Guardian. There was no green monster within her heart, only curiosity, relief, and hope the one before her knew what she had and to never let him go. The only reason Jayse could hate her if she broke things that not ought to be.
Ava, that was her name. The leader held her tongue, not wanting to disturb the fact they shouldn't know each other. Quietly as she had came she had left, and Jayse had not thought a lot into the meeting. "Welcome to Grizzly Hollow, you wish to stay?" There was no mockery in the lady's tone, but mere question of what the other lady wanted this time. This must be why she was here, why his voice had called. Unless...but Jaysyek dare not think the charcoal and silver flecked man was going to leave tonight. No, she convinced herself he must want her to stay. Any other wolf but Jayse would worry this would mean her downfall, but to see Kade with his other half, whole she found nothing wrong about that.