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The early morning sunshine did quite a lot to lift her spirits.  Banner caught up with a familiar face yesterday - were they friends now? - and at least felt comfortable in this random territory.  For now.  It clearly wasn't claimed , so she had no fear of stepping on any toes or being attacked and losing her cool.  Well, that was always on her mind.  Effects of the famine, she supposed, though the female found herself frequently wondering if there was simply something wrong with her.

Her head shook suddenly.  Now wasn't the time to sink back into her own head.  Today was a new day!  A little optimism wouldn't kill her (though there wasn't any concrete proof of that yet).  Maybe she'd get a few leads on her siblings.  Or maybe she would clean herself up a bit.  The two year old felt ragged, but luckily her thick coat masked how skinny she'd gotten.  It didn't quite have its old shine and the sides were sticking out in random spots, but that wasn't anything that couldn't be fixed!  See?  Optimism.

The dark brown female stepped up beside one of those strange-looking charred trees and rubbed her side against it.  With no sizeable body of water in her immediate area to rinse our her coat, this would have to do to flatten her wayward pelt.  Banner let out a satisfied sigh as she switched sides and continued her rubbing, green eyes closed peacefully.  The thought that this previously-burned tree was probably leaving dark marks on her sides crossed her mind, but her coat was dark anyway.  And no one was around.

Optimism!