Blacktail Deer Plateau growing like a weed

By some amazing stroke of luck, Pura managed to snatch the prize right out of Tytonidae's mouth. So shocked was the pup by his success at first that his brain threw an exception, and it was all he could do to stand and stare dumbly - and cross-eyed - at the leaf in his own mouth.

His cousin did not take this well. She flung herself to the ground, flapping her legs and screaming bloody murder. Pura looked between Peregrine and his daughter for two nervous seconds, unsure what the protocol was here - the pups were never punished, but he had been told off once or twice for nearly strangling Saēna.

But his uncle did not growl, and Pura proceeded to celebrate his rare victory by romping around the den-site, bucking and stumbling like a wild horse - probably making things worse for the long-suffering father, but too young and selfish to know better.