Blackbeak Bluff My mama don't like you, and she likes everyone*

What poses as a verdant, rolling field ends abruptly with the rearranging of white paws at the edge of a sheer cliff. The outrider might've kept walking, oblivious to the danger over the next rise, but she spots the glint of the sun on the waves just in time to slow her momentum. She pricks her ears forward, unable to hide the alarum from her face as her heart speeds up in her chest and she faces the openness of air in front of her, with nothing to catch her should she fall. A pebble crumbles away beneath her toes and she takes three steps back, poised to run as if the entire cliff face could crack away at any moment.

But it holds solid without even a sound, and Saena breathes out a relieved sigh. The relaxation of her muscles and hackles is such that her figure visibly deflates. That would be one way to go, she thinks. Reek would never forgive her if she fell to her death from here. As far as her mate knows, Saena is on a trip to survey Redtail Rise and how it fares since the fire. Phoenix Maplewood is home to both of them now, comfortable and safe, but the alpha female still yearns for the ridge.

She had gone there, initially, but the sight of the still-charred mount proved too much for her and she rearranged her course to end up here. Now, she licks her chops nervously and casts around herself, seeking any familiar sight, but there are none. She's never walked along the cliffs before, and this area is completely new to her. Being an outrider, this is exciting to Saena, but being an alpha female with every intent of returning home without incident, it's nerve-wracking as well.

@Casmir

Present tense challenge.