Oh, how her knee hurt! It had been such a mistake to go hunting, and as the Marino woman hobbled her way back toward Haven Manor, she realized just what she had done. A gasp of clear pain was pushed through her chest, forming on the cool dusk air in a puff of weak smoke. The deer she'd brought back for herself and her family was flung to the ground, the new antlers sticking in the soft earth; it was a young buck, but certainly enough to feed her own family and the families of her siblings. Her hand went to the scarred knee, trying to rub the pain away. "Ciò era un errore." She cursed under her breath and allowed herself to sit on the worn porch of the building.
It wasn't hard to get back into her daily routines at all, yet she found that her knee hurt more when the weather was cold. She couldn't wait for summertime. Maybe she would feel better when the sun's heat beat down on her. For a moment, she regretted diving into the dilapidated barn after her niece. Those thoughts were dashed almost as soon as she started. It wasn't Cambria's fault that the barn had collapsed. It wasn't Cambria's fault that she had gone in after her. She loved her niece. The loss of the girl would have destroyed the pack morale. She would have been miserable. Savina too, she was certain.
Still, that barn had caused a lot of trouble. She gave a huff and allowed herself to lay back, rolling into her stomach and crossing her arms beneath her head. "Ugh. Too much for the day." Words laced with heavy Italian undertones filtered into the air. She was tired, but it wasn't over. The deer needed to be skinned and cleaned. With any luck, she'd find company to help her. The wolf scrambled to her feet and found the legs of the woodland critter, dragging it up the stairs to sit in close comfort to the manor. As she started her work on the cadaver, she started to sing, tone deaf as she was. Lyrics to an Italian folk song, learned from the nomads around Monti Sabini, twisted the quiet air into something vaguely unpleasant, but she seemed unbothered, happily working at skinning the animal.