She carried all that she owned upon her back, books digging sharply into her spine with each step that she took. The girl had been too frightened to fully approach the borders of the pack before, but she had woken up this morning feeling just a little bit braver. Wretch had been considering going back to these packlands to find her sibling Pandemic again and attempt to squeeze more information out of him about the rest of their family (she had no idea where they stayed, only that Pandemic lived in this pack), but only recently had she been given the opportunity to take some time away from Ichika.
An extended stay away from Ichika, in fact. She wasn't certain if she would return there or not, after what had happened at their borders. She didn't know what to call herself now that she had broken one of the fundamental rules of peace in the pack from which she had come...whether she could even call herself a true Ichikan any longer. She had been ambushed just outside of the pack's territory, brutalized as she had been twice in the past, and had defended herself against her attacker. She'd taken their life.
Aqua eyes closed for a few seconds as she stopped tiredly, setting her pack down beside her. She was outside of their border line but near enough for someone to notice her, hopefully. Once her pack was on the ground the short canine joined it, sinking down against the trunk of a tree. She didn't want to be perceived as a threat and thought carefully about her behavior, biting her lip as she waited patiently. She was tired enough...she would wait all day if she needed to.
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