Blacktail Deer Plateau growing like a weed

Ty hadn't taken more than a few steps out of the den before she sensed movement behind her. Her father exited their humble abode, and she gave him a happy grin, flattened her ears, and wagged her tail with delight. To Pura, who had run up behind her and was apparently pleased with her enthusiasm, she gave him a tug on the ear with her tiny jaws and then toddled off toward a leaf that lay on the ground. Picking it up gently, she pranced toward her cousin-brother, showing him the leaf before sloppily bounding away with it.

Stopping to shake the leaf from side to side (like some kind of poor dead animal), she looked back to see where Pura was. Idly, she wondered if the other ones her size would come out to play, too. It was strange now that they were able to be in different places. She didn't always have Osprey by her side, nor her two cousins.