Blacktail Deer Plateau when the lights go out

Something was amiss in the Redleaf-Disarinno neighbourhood. Where Peregrine had been a constant in the childrens' lives up to this point, he suddenly had taken something of a hiatus from the kids' crib, popping up occasionally but quickly dismissing himself once his business was complete. All of the pups had noticed this, though perhaps Saēna was the least affected by it, if only because Osprey was always with Peregrine, and Saēna tended to stay anywhere that the bully wasn't.

It was only the strange behaviour of his most feisty daughter that really clued Saēna in to something being off, for she was much too selfish to really notice Hawkeye's restlessness. Normally, the largest female of the cubs busied herself lording over her underlings, reluctant as they were to accept her command, but now she slumped in the grass beside a tantalizing meal looking positively forlorn after her father had walked away despite her calling for him.

Saēna had begun to recognize even at her young age that approaching Osprey Jr. was a little bit like approaching an atomic bomb, but nevertheless she crept toward the slightly older puppy, for once not defiant of her lesser role but rather, accepting of it. She could tell by Peregrine's disappearance alone that something was wrong, and Osprey seemed to be suffering for it, something that her "sister" couldn't accept no matter how much she "hated" the other. As a testament to her fear of Junior's aggressiveness, the child hung back, but nevertheless pressed her belly to the grassy floor and called hesitantly across the distance, “Ju?”