Bearclaw Valley No More.

<3 Sorry for taking forever, I spent the last two weeks applying to school and moving into a dorm, so there's that xD Just getting back into the swing of writing again.

The rough press of a tongue jerked Nanook out of her daze. Before she could respond, the ground scooted out from beneath her and the heat of mama's fur blocked whatever breeze the air carried. Nanook squirmed at the sudden loss of freedom, but mama held her tightly. A sniffling sounded over the silence, and noise that made the grey girl still.

Her siblings made those noises when they were hurt, Nanook knew that. Mama was crying, but the thought only made the grey girl furrowed her brow, because mama's weren't supposed to cry.

She twisted in her hold. Though she pushed her fur in the wrong direction, Nanook didn't think on that. Rather, she fixed Scarlett with a pinched look and a frown. Mama smiled, but she didn't look happy. Her eyes swam with something else, and her strange behaviour pushed the clouds from Nanook's mind, at least for the moment.

Nanook merely nodded in response to mama's question. "Hurt?" Only her siblings had acted this way before, and every time they had, they'd been hurt. So something must have hurt mama, though her frown only thickened at the thought.