Black Morass Hakuna Matata

It was the lack of sound that drew the queen to look over her shoulder and slow, halting and looking around in confusion. Lottie HAD followed her, right? Of course, she'd felt the pounding of her daughters paws in the earth behind her, watched her heading this way. Where had she gone? A few stones and boulders littered the landscape, and she put the peices together pretty quickly. Was this a game, or was her daughter just trying to scare her? Either way, Gia was obviously supposed to go looking.
And so she did. Stalking over to the closest rock on swift paws, one not far from Carlotta, she crouched and tried to scent for her daughter. Yes, there it was: faint, but there. She peeked her purple-blue eyes around, glancing in every direction for her similar-looking spawn, and made another silent sprint for the next rock.