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Kei knew as well as the next guy that it was important for them to venture beyond their borders. The Order wouldn't do much good if they sat around in Niawaki minding only themselves, but the Order had to be functional as well—something they hadn't quite reached beyond being a standard pack. Once everyone had earned a name, they would be better off, and then any of them could wander beyond the borders or deal with travelers. But for now, it was just her and Kyo.

“Open ground?” It wouldn't take long for her question to be answered. There were short set plateaus, grassy and barren, that gated the key, but beyond their walls, the land stretched on flat and empty aside from the dried yellow grass. Underfoot, the comforting plush and weave of jungle turned dry, leaving cracked, dried-out mud. “Yeah, this is...lucky. Anyone passing will be spotted a mile away. Plus we have natural walls, although that could be bad if this is the only opening to Niawaki. Don't wanna get caught in a funnel. It would be worth following the plateaus to see where they break and note any other openings.”

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Traps...it wasn't a bad idea, but they would need to meet a few requirements. They don't want some kid bein' stupid and gettin' killed. They shouldn't back fire on their own, and more importantly, “What if you aren't up there? Most enemies sneakin' around aren't going to announce themselves. They'll come at night if they're smart; wait for defenses to be resting or less alert.” Unless they had an army no one would come marching up while they could be spotted long before they reached the grassy plateaus. 

“If we can set them and leave them that's better. Non-lethal. I'm not killing someone because they're dumb and blind or poking their nose where it doesn't belong. Something to disable them— temporarily. Maybe a drop pit or something we can check.” That would mean a lot of digging and the ground wasn't exactly soft, but it was cracked. That meant it had to be moist at some point. Maybe if it was dried mud, there wouldn't be many rocks, and digging a hole wouldn't be too time-consuming. The next issue is how they would hide their trap. Excess foliage would stick out like a sore thumb without any trees to make the trap inconspicuous.

“We might be able to use the grass to obscure something. The wind will be an issue, but maybe the plateaus will keep it in place a bit. S'all we really got unless we find something more useful out here.”
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There was a fair point in Kyo's words as well. The old order had been fortunate to never have an army at their doors. They had done well obscuring where they resided, where the children and elders rested, and who their leaders were. There had always been a vague idea of what territory they settled in, but much like Naiwaki, it was not for those of wandering paws. It required skill to navigate and a level of stealth to find where one would even need to strike. She aimed to have the same here, but the wolves they were training were not born under the same practices. They would make mistakes, and those mistakes may cost them the price of their secrecy.

They would be no match should an army barge down their walls.

Fortunately, they still had the land to their advantage. A single opening meant a single exit, but they could find more. Obscure get-away paths leading out a shadowed side or hideaways where members of the Order could seemingly disappear in an invasion. They might not have numbers, but they had strategy. “That would be good. We may be able to use any tunnels as well. If there's water, then it can sustain a wolf, at least for a short time. Be it emergencies or for information... If we ever were met with an army there are not many places for us to go. But if we can seemingly disappear into the land, then it may buy us time to wait them out or find another exit.”
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