Blacktail Deer Plateau The forgotten

Panic dug its icy claws into her breast as her vision began to swam. Choking was a new concept, and Saēna would forever lay the blame on rocks rather than on herself for it. She was much too busy choking to consider it now, and instead she sunk pitifully to her stomach, retching nothing up. Her throat whistled weirdly with every breath, and she remembered thinking that it was interesting when she began to black out.

What she would remember then was the sensation of drowning, and then suddenly being able to breathe again. Luckily for Peregrine and Junior both, the diva wouldn't remember being hit by either of them. Gasping and coughing hard against the sudden onslaught of oxygen and finding that her eyes with heavy with tears, she sent a bewildered look in her adoptive father's direction.

Her eyes found the unconscious Osprey Jr. instead. Though she was wholly unaware of what had happened, she intuitively knew that, at least for the moment, she was safe from the bully's wrath. It never occurred to her and likely never would that her worst nightmare had just been responsible for saving her life, and had taken the fall for it, intentionally or otherwise.