Hushed Willows Ornithomancy

After being corralled by Warbone, Tavi had changed her tune from I have got to get this done to something more like, I can wait a day. The bugs had gotten worse. They no longer flew overhead on approach, but had settled among the once beautiful willows and devoured the majority of them overnight. Bodies littered the ground - the bugs had eaten, maybe bred, and died, all in the night. While Warbone howled for the pack Tavi was silent, looking down at the dead and twitching bodies of the locusts with an expression of utter revulsion on her face. 

Then, the wolves began to appear. Around them were the living locusts, which seemed to have figured out where to go on their own. Most of them avoided the wolves as they passed through them, the swarm parting for each new body, although a few of the bugs still zigged instead of zagged, and came close to a set of jaws or bumbled against a body. Tavi wondered if they would ever stop feasting upon the land. And what would this mean for the pack? How could they eat if the prey had nowhere to go? Everything was ruined.

This was no place to birth her children, not if they couldn't even eat.

But such a thought survived for only a heartbeat in Tavi's mind. She was swiftly overwhelmed by the oncoming pack members - namely a small dark one who slunk up to her side, far too close the look in the woman's eyes said, and seemed eager to protect her. Before Warbone could say a word on the subject, Tavi let out a low warning growl, Get away from me, creature. This was unlike any wolf she had seen, which set off alarm bells in the mother-to-be's mind; she did not want this thing anywhere near her, or the babies. Not to mention having this child talk about her as if she weren't even right fucking there was infuriating.

Tavi shifted slightly closer to Warbone, her tail raising over her back as if she was assuming some sort of grand position alongside him. Maybe that was what she had to do - otherwise these wolves would never respect her space. Tavi fell silent at this thought, but kept her eyes on Flora, since her ears were made useless by the drone of the swarm.