Redhawk Caldera [m] Kamikaze

Pura is hiding. :)

It didn't take Pura long to work out that Saena's move had prompted Junior's return to the Teekon Wilds. He sensed her along the borders of his sister's claim, and spied her dark, narrow body moving across the mountain on multiple occasions. Three out of four.

But one day, she left. He spied her as she crossed the Dawnlark Plains, moving south at speed and with great purpose. And as was Pura's way, he followed, leaving just enough distance between them to hide all evidence of his presence. No sound, no scents.

Eventually, they reached the Caldera.

Pura had visited once before. Peregrine had met him in the fields, and they had shared one of only a handful of pleasant conversations in Pura's sparsely populated Chat Bank. Unlike his sisters, Pura bore his adopted father no ill will - nor did it matter to him that Peregrine had gone on to procreate with someone else. He wanted to eat the infants, of course, but that was neither here nor there. For Peregrine, he would stay that urge.

But Junior would not.

Pura watched them re-unite - father and daughter, chatting as easily as if the past had been plucked from their minds and replaced with fluff. When they moved, he followed them in, expertly avoiding detection. In the midst of claimed territory that he had no business intruding upon, this meant he had to give the pair a few hundred meters of clearance.

If he hadn't, who knows? Perhaps Junior would have been distracted enough by his arrival to live a little longer.

The commotion quickened his steps. Without pausing to consider what was going on, Pura rushed to close the gap, happening upon the scene in time to see Peregrine lift his daughter's head from her shoulders in an explosion of red. Junior's body hit the ground with a dull thud, followed by the gentle patter of her own blood raining down on her savaged, headless body.

Pura crept behind a nearby tree, staring his blank stare and salivating freely.