The Sentinels wargemont

deirdre spoke nothing of his [lack of] carefulness, only assessed him briefly with learned eyes. eilidh had taught her to catch breaks, but there was nothing that revealed such a devastating fact to her, and she was relieved. as he spoke of washing, the cub tilted her head. deirdre herself did not mind to be covered in the earth, so at peace among it, but was consistently well-groomed out of her mothers preference.

the cub knew of a nearby spring, and gestured toward the direction she knew it to be in. come, she urged gently, and went in the direction of a slow-moving waterway.