OH WHY HELLO 
There was a quickness to the scarred woman's step that had been absent for many weeks now; it would seem some of her youthful strength had returned. Perhaps she had been energized by Clover's smoking implements; the silvery hybrid did not put it past such a substance to work miracles. Sometimes the things she saw in her head alone were quite nearly miraculous. The plaguing arthritic feeling had faded from her joints, chased away by tendrils of thick smoke. The hybrid woman had not known she could feel quite like this anymore.
The call at the borders had not escaped her notice; she had been keeping closer to the borders lately, anticipating the usual flood of fresh faces within the coyote clan—Clover's arrival had, to Kaena, signified an end to the dry times. She knew quite well that the coyote clan's joiners tended to come in tides—there were none to few during periods of low tide, and there were almost too many during periods of high tide. The clan's recent thirty-strong membership had proven his quite well to her; not three months after boasting a head count of thirty-two, they had been halved. Wartime and the usual deserter problems had reduced their numbers to normalcy quite quickly. There had been no periods in which the hybrid found their membership dangerously low, however; whether or not they had new faces, the core of the clan was always there.
As the hybrid continued along, the stranger's scent entered her nose; she tracked after it absently, meandering through the forest with hurry in her step. She found the newcomer after several minutes. He was in Optime form, some sort of thing clutched to his chest—the one-eyed hybrid did not recognize it as a hat until she was quite close. One yellow-golden eye peered toward this newcomer, sizing him up. He did not look very much like Cassius; of course, the scarred canine could not have known she was peering at the Arphralos patriarch. “Can I help you?” she said, her tone one of practiced indifference.
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