ooc: not a problem! I myself have been slow and lazy with threads lately <_< Also the backdating is fine! aaand Xer is in Optime.
It was the first time that Xeris had left pack territory since the accident. Now the snowstorm was in the past, a memory; or she would have liked it to be, but the packlands were still damaged and changed forever. She had chosen to wander into neutral lands out of restlessness, wanting to get out of her storm-wrought home for just a little while. Naturally, her affinity for the ocean led the white-furred wolfess to the shoreline, a place she had been before. The waves, the sea, the breeze, all of it calmed her like nothing else.
However, the sounds of the ocean and the sea birds were not the only noise to be heard; just as Xeris began to approach the water her ears swivelled in the direction of a voice. A pup's voice? Calling for a parent? She realized then that the voice had been much closer than she originally thought, and then noticed the pup curled up on the rocks, looking depressed. Xeris' heart sank; as a mother, she couldn't stand to see a child in distress. Quietly, so as not to startle the girl, the scarred female moved closer to the unfamiliar pup and squatted on the ground to get closer to her eye level, before softly speaking up. "What's wrong, little one?"