Blacktail Deer Plateau The forgotten

When it came to Saēna, Osprey's attempts to put the smaller, paler puppy in her place were nearly relentless... though a distraction could go a long way with her youthful attention span. This afternoon, Osprey ignored her cousling and occupied herself with looking for her friend, the owl. She conducted this search by running about the den site with her head craned back and crashing into or over something at frequent intervals. She looked like a total dumbass, not that there were many witnesses.

Peregrine suddenly materialized at the edge of the clearing and Junior immediately forgot her search and ran to him, ignoring the uncomfortable crick in her short neck. The Alpha male bent down to greet her, then took in the view: Hawkeye catnapping in the mellow May sunshine and Saēna flopped in the grass looking utterly bored. Kisu must have taken the other two off on a jaunt.

Padding over to Saēna, Peregrine nudged the bashful but certainly not quiet girl. Were any of the children quiet? No, he answered himself even as Osprey Jr. went running off across the clearing, shrieking, "OW! OW! OW! OWOWOW!" at the top of her little lungs.

"She's, like, so annoying," Peregrine remarked to Saēna in his best Valley Girl voice, dropping to sit haphazardly on one black hip. He bent down briefly to tug on one rusty ear, then grinned and winked down at her.