Stone Circle A whole new world

Clary felt the shift in the den, the press of warmth gradually lessen, and though her thoughts pulled groggy with sleep, her legs buzzed with a sudden shock of energy when she realized both sister and brother had tiptoed from the den - without her. The understanding hardly brought the suspicion they'd snuck off on purpose to leave her behind. Her mind was too young for such conspiracies, and ran only with the course of needing to get wherever they had gone. When a brief glance around the den confirmed they'd left, her little tail whipped and she rocketed to the blinding portal that marked where their cozy world ended and the real one began.

She blinked against the startling sunlight, but didn't slow. A mad scramble marked her eruption from the den, and she moved her quickest to where the focussing forms of her siblings stood - and struck a tumbling course toward them. In her excitement, she'd overshot her limited speed, and she had little time to brace for collision.