The Sentinels Well we hurt each other

deirdre was welcomed, met first with a growl but then with a smile. it was the latter that caused her to draw nearer, slowly, her eyes alight with excitement. osprey! i have heard that you have had babies! she gasped at the word, not yet sure what the word even meant, truly. ...may i see them? her tail waved behind her gingerly; a cursory sniff revealed nothing to her but the bare thread of new life, that osprey had done well in hiding.