Neela slunk guiltily through the forest, nose plastered to the ground to keep following the scent trail she was tracking over the strong scent of the bloody meat held in her mouth. It had been enarly a month since the encounter with Kiara and that blonde bitch and in that time Neela hadn’t seen Kiara once; not surprising considering that Neela had spent much of her time outside the pack or holed up inside her house.
Neela had lost her temper with a packmate. Sure nothing physical had come from it but even so Neela felt ashamed of her loss of control. The chicks and Grynn were not with her on this trip as Neela remembered Kiara's distaste for birds and had asked them to stay behind.
Neela's feelings were plain to see for anybody who happened to glance by, even not in the precense of Kiara yet her tail was drooped low and ears flat against her head. Neela wasn;t sure how badly the white wolf had took her words but hopefully the leg of deer clutched in her mouth would go some way towards making up for it.
Despite the bloody smell almost overwhelming her sense of smell, which wasn't the sharpest at the best of times, Neela eventually managed to find her way to where Kiara seemed to den. As she approached the opening Neela felt herself stop for a moment, almost unable to continue, consumed by a sudden fear that she might lose her temper again for some reason and attack Kiara.
It was an irrational fear, Neela knew that. She was far past the point of randomly losing her temper for no reason and the only reason she had done so before was because of the blonde dog's infuriating presence. There was absolutely no reason that she might lose control of herself now, but even so Neela found herself approaching the den very slowly, forcing herself to take each step.
Neela stopped a polite distance away and placed the deer on the ground, backing off a few paces. The blood smeared around her nose made it impossible for her to tell if Kiara was inside the den or not, but either way she would wait here till she showed herself.
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