Redhawk Caldera Circle of life

Raven had been in the midst of a flurry of bizarre dreams, her little body twitching in response to visions and sensations she couldn't understand, when she was jostled awake by the stirring of her siblings around her.  Blinking and staring around in confusion, she slowly rose to her feet.  She gazed at her father with a troubled expression on her face for several moments, even as her brother and sister fell upon the elk leg he offered them.  She saw him in her dreams, yet he was somehow different...

A gentle nudge from her mother broke her strange reverie, though, and she joined her siblings for breakfast. She wasn't especially hungry, though, and only took a few bites from the meaty leg.  Despite her lack of appetite, the food was delicious.  Raven had taken a vigorous liking to meat; she loved the texture of it and particularly enjoyed the taste of fresh blood.  She had been an easy kid to wean, readily eschewing her mother's milk in favor of meat.  It was odd for her to take such a lackluster interest in a meal, but then again, puppies were fickle little monsters. 

Soon they were whisked off on an adventure, Dad leading the way and Mom bringing up the rear.  Raven, like her siblings, was frisky and interested, taking in the sights and scents around her.  Several places were familiar to her and she recognized vague wafts of her parents' scent markings on the breeze.  They continued onward, though, to someplace new that Raven hadn't yet visited.  Her first impression of their new rendezvous site was that it was big!  Her eyes widened and her mouth fell open in a tiny "o" as she looked out over the vista that spread before her; soft, grassy hills rolled and sloped down to a glittering blue lake in the distance, hugged on either side by dense arms of evergreen forest.  This was a place where three growing wolf pups could run and play to their hearts' content, with endless miles of wildland to roam and explore (and get into trouble, no doubt).  Her tail waving behind her, Raven looked up at her father with a smile on her blue-eyed face and commented simply, "Prilly!"