About an hour after his meeting with Bonnie, Ethan had come to the rendezvous point. Astride Harthrou, he waited at the edge of Soloughvein Road, where a small lake and an overgrown field marked the edge of the swampy woods.

Milling around Harth where six King Hounds. With them was their leader, Kong - a massive black dog that weighed in a hair over 240 pounds. The others in the pack weren't so massive as he, but they each had their own qualifying traits. And being owned by Ethan, this hunting pack was the best of the best.

Salsa had chosen to come with the hunting pack normally she was a gaurd back home but she needed to stretch her legs. She moved beside the group. She was much faster and more agile so she could be used to flush game out if needed and she could make the first strike while the king hounds were much much stronger then she.She looked around.

Bonnie soon arrived at the location, her trusty canine at her side. "I see you beat me." She said. She wore jeans and a short-sleeved shirt - nothing out of the ordinary. She had a rifle strapped onto her shoulder. Amber had a duty to guard her human, so the hybrid stood at Bonnie's side. Bonnie looked down at Amber and smiled, then back at Ethan. "You're the expert here. Where are the hunting grounds?"

Amber looked at all of the canines confidently. She loved to hunt in a pack. "Greetings, fellow wolf-hunters. My name is Amber." She wanted to get off onto a good start, by not angering any of the canines.

Once again greeting Bonnie with a charming smile, Ethan dismounted, "I suppose I did have a bit of an advantage." Patting Harth's neck, the man looked to the west, where the Croal Mountains boardered the entire side of the Valley. "We could go out that way, or travel along the coast." Now he looked to the northwest, "Most of the bountied wolves live along the coast there."

Kong was pleased to see that Salsa joined. And when Amber approached, he bared a friendly grin, "I'm Kong. That's Stave, Salsa, Casper, Daisy, Locklan, and Meadow." The massive brute replied, nodding to each of the other canines as he named them. "I take it you've done some hunting?"

For her hunting came by instinct being a wolf and all.She yawned and bobbed her dial to the other dog.

Bonnie looked in each direction, thinking deeply. She didn't really care where they went. But she had to say something, or they would be delayed. Only by a few minutes, but she wanted to get started as soon as possible. She finally made a decision when the thought came to her that she liked mountains better than the shore. "We could start over there. It seems more heavily wooded, and I would think that we could find some decent game there." She pointed to the hilly areas in front of the mountain. "But either way, you'd know better than some silly girl."

Amber sat down and wagged her tail. She knew from the start that Kong was the leader, and she wasn't one to challenge an alpha's authority. "I guess you could say I'm a hunter. You have hunted too, no?" She replied pleasantly, offering a friendly smile to Salsa as she spoke.

Light brown eyes were sent gazing to the distant mountains, to which he nodded. "Sounds great to me. We can start up by Hyndail Peak and work down to the foothills. Word has it that there's an awful lot of activity up there." Ethan explained, as he clicked his tounge. Harth's curved ears perked up and he nudged his master's shoulder.

"Fan out!" Ethan commanded, as he began to head for the mountains.

"Hunting is my life." Kong replied with a toothy smirk, "It will be fun having two extra members today." The leader paused as he heard Ethan call out the command. Stave, Casper, and Daisy all filed out into the brush, disappearing from sight. Kong, Locklan, and Meadow stayed nearer to Harth and the two humans. "If you're good at sighting prey, you might want to join Stave and the others. But if you'd rather stay near us and your master, it's fine too. Do what you're best at." Kong explained, always striving to bring out the best aspects of his packmates, and get the pack working together as a unit.

She would stay behind with kong and the others. She knew her instincts just might make her scare the prey off so she would wait until her skills were needed.

Bonnie tilted her head as she listened. Once Ethan was done speaking, she looked down at Amber and smiled, then followed the other hunters. She was always alert, knowing that there were creatures in the forest that would risk their lives to bring her down.

Amber stood up and wagged her tail, following her human faithfully. "I never leave Bonnie's side unless she tells me to." She stated in a matter-of-factly way.