Blacktail Deer Plateau The forgotten

Saena had many options here: she could give up the rock for round two of fetch, or she could dance away with it an entice her foster father into a game of keep away. She could throw the rock herself, pathetic as its distance might be, and see if Peregrine would chase it the way his children did. She could try to collect more rocks and make a tiny rock pile out of them, and then hoard them to herself like dragon's treasure.

Saena did none of these things. Instead, the girl danced on her paws for a moment and grinned widely before promptly swallowing the stone. The stone was apparently perturbed by this development, for it responded by sticking painfully in the pup's throat and eliciting a deep, barking cough from the child as she struggled to free it.