Phoenix Maplewood Hunger will drive you insane

She and Sart would have to rely on Reek to bring them most of their food, though Reggie was determined to learn how to hunt for herself too. At just shy of two months old, she had yet to make a kill, even a small one... but she didn't let that deter her. She left her sister curled up inside the hollow tree and skulked into the woodland, determined to scrounge up a mouse or frog or something small. She would be sure to split it with Sart, so that both of them could become self-sustaining all the sooner.

Her tracking led her to the edge of the forest. She darted behind a shrub when she saw a black wolf skulking near the territory's outskirts. He looked like Reek but he didn't smell like him. She no longer trusted strangers, even wolves (perhaps especially wolves...). Regipre planned to lay low and wait him out, only revealing herself after he was gone, though the sudden appearance of a garter snake abruptly changed things. She reacted like a cat with its tail caught beneath a rocking chair; she jumped into the air, leaping sideways to avoid the serpent even as it struck.