Blacktail Deer Plateau The forgotten

"Fesh it is," he replied to Saēna's endearingly exuberant reply, a slight teasing note in his voice that she surely wouldn't notice. Unaware that the child wished him to throw her across the clearing, the Alpha male turned his attention to the patch of ground immediately surrounding himself. He nosed about in the grass until he found a small stone, which clicked against his teeth when he plucked it off the ground.

"Fesh!" he said, this time the pronunciation an accident caused by the object in his mouth. Peregrine snapped his neck, sending the rock flying less than ten feet. Surely it would be far enough to entice Saēna into chasing it down.

In the meantime, Junior ran up to him with the bone clutched firmly in her small maw. While Saēna presumably went after the stone, Peregrine attempted to get his elder daughter to spit out her prize, to no avail. She grinned around the bone and danced just out of reach, earning a dry, "This is so not fetch," from her Valley Girl father.