"No ma'am," Kiteso replied. "Just the water, like Grain said."
Kiteso hesitated; it wasn't exactly her place to decide where the pack should bed down. "Now, I don't know much about picking the pack territory," she said quickly, "But I do think that perhaps we should move up further, depending on what Grain and I can find to the south. The water would be closer and the human den would be farther away. Ma'am." She bowed slightly, wanting to show that it was a simple suggestion, and she knew that her place was far beneath that of the alphess. "It's only, when the pups come, the southern area could become a hazard."