Phoenix Maplewood All that was once so beautiful is dead

"You should go see Chaiyya," she replied, looking at her brother's wounds. "I told her my feet hurt and she put sap on them and it stung at first but now they don't crack," she explained, hopping around as she tried to show her brother the bottoms of her paws. "But she also said that rats will probably gnaw my paws off at night if I'm not careful." Let them try. Kasatka would just gnaw them right back.

She turned a bright smile on Aditya when he arrived, but it fell away when he seemed more concerned about Sunny. Had she missed something? Was Sunny more hurt than she'd thought? Upset by the idea, the girl pressed closer to her brother and offered a soothing kiss to the chin.