Blacktail Deer Plateau The forgotten

Osprey continued to holler in the background, enticing Saēna's ears to swivel in the larger pup's direction, but her bright blue eyes were fixed on her adoptive father. When he slid down, Saēna mimicked him, attempting to splay her legs out the same way he did, but when his foot nudged its way beneath her pudgy belly, the girl squealed and her attempt to sit regally was abandoned.

“Wheeeeee,” went Saēna as Peregrine made a festival ride out of his own leg. “Ee-ee-ee-ee,” hiccoughed the babe as he began to jackhammer his limb. She felt herself slipping to the left and clung tightly, her mouth opened wide in a grin of sheer delight and her eyes wide with excitement.

Then, suddenly, the ride stopped. Just before Saēna could protest, she was sent tumbling to her side in the dirt as Peregrine's leg slid out from under her, and in response to his sudden shout, the babe laughed madly. Her tail whipped the ground as she struggled to right herself, and when finally she found her feet, the little splotched pup bounced exuberantly. “Gen! Gen! GEN!” Saēna squealed in an attempt to get him to take her on another ride down his imaginary pothole-ridden road.