Blacktail Deer Plateau The itsy bitsy spider

The sun shone heavily on Blacktail Deer Plateau, causing the air in the distance to shimmer with heat. While the black-furred pups and even Pura rested in the shade of the den's mouth, panting, Saēna was able to stand the heat and played alone in the dry mud caked at the entrance. The sun didn't bother her like it did the other children, though she was much too young to understand why. Her ears and tail were warmest, and even that paled in comparison to the discomfort Osprey and Tytonidae must have been feeling.

Peregrine stood sentry over the pups, lying in the shade himself. It had been decided the cubs would play outdoors while Hawkeye and Kisu attended to duties that needed their immediate attention. No amount of play bowing or tail waving could entice her black-coated siblings to join her under the sun, so she romped on her own, tongue flailing and tail limbs whipping around as she frolicked in place, pretending to be a unicorn... Or an adult version of herself, more likely.

Her attention was snagged by a small black thing roaming on the packed earth, and suddenly Saēna was pursuing it, clapping her broad puppy paws down on either side of it and giggling everytime it skittered in another direction. Her rump flew into the air and her tail quivered stiffly as she continued this game, ears shoved forward as though the tiny spider was somehow speaking to her and demanded her fullest attention.