Blacktail Deer Plateau Bufferzone

"I doubt that I will do this all over," Osprey said in a voice full of determination. If she got out of this trouble and would be fine again, then next year she would accept Blue Willow's offer to keep her locked up and guarded in a den until the dangerous days were over. She didn't trust herself that much anymore and there was no way of knowing in what kind of trouble she would get in, if she took the same path as this year.

"Talk about screwing up a life," she sighed and gave him a small smile, wondering at the back of her mind, when had she become so good to him. Probably her poor state and the unbalanced emotions were to blame. Maybe next time - this time she knew that there would probably be one, another and then another, since fate liked to play jokes and be unpredictable in his moves - she would treat him the right way. Though she had to admit that Burke had showed himself in a lot better light than before.

"But there must be an inkling of, where you want to be," everyone had plans for future. Even those, who claimed that they did not.