Dawnlark Plains Sang the jelly bean prayer

Grace watched around her, giggling as she watched Saena. She was tempted to change course and follow the alpha, but then Esaro called to her and her golden gaze turned to him. She limped her way towards him, squinting at the birds nest up in the tree and coming to a halt beside him.
              "I might be able to...."
She wasn't sure if she'd be able to do this with a hindered leg, but the russet she wolf wasnt about to admit it. She would need a good deal of help and guiding, not that such things had stopped her before. Approaching Esaro, she gave him a slightly worried look to be sure he was ready before placing her front paws on his back. She tried lifting her bad leg up, but it just wouldn't come high enough to be on Esaro's back; she'd have to use the other one to get up while her bad leg held her, not something she was confident in. Too late now! Taking a deep breath, she shifted onto her bad leg and whimpered slightly in discomfort. Despite being fully healed, her hip joint often ached when she used it too much, stressed it the wrong way. Pride pushed her forward though, and she kept going. Slowly, gingerly, she lifted her functional leg up till she felt Esaro's fur on her pads. Hoping she wasn't too heavy for the similar sized wolf, Grace hauled herself up the rest of the way onto his back. She took no time to steady herself, wanting to take as much weight off his back as possible right away, and unsteadily reared up to put her front feet on the back. Her left leg trembled and rocked, threatening to give out at any time. She hooked her front paws over the branch just as her leg gave, wincing and clenching her jaws. She tried pulling herself up, but only got her chest pulled onto the branch. Just before she started to panic, though, she saw the nest that Esaro had sent her for. Four eggs were nestled into the bracken safely, no parents to be seen.
                        "The nest is full Esaro!"
Though her voice was excited and she'd lost the sense of panic, she still faced all the problems of getting up, getting the eggs, finding a way to get the eggs DOWN, and getting herself back down all without breaking anything: egg or bone.