Blacktail Deer Plateau coming for to carry you home

I asked Kat for permission to post, but I've got 15 minutes now so I wanted to get a reply in which I can delete if Pura's presence is not OK! :D I read that the skull still had ears in the other thread, but I can change that too if I got the wrong end of the stick.

The sound of Blue's tortured howl cut into Pura's ears like a vicious animal, flattening them like blades of grass in a hurricane. Normally, the spectrum of emotion was incomprehensibly vast and impossibly varied that he didn't have a hope in hell of deciphering what was going on, but the alpha's voice teetered on the extreme edge of 'not good'. Even with his mild social handicap, Kisu's boy knew that something had changed for the worse.

He was first at the scene. Blue Willow's face was wet with tears, but Pura's attention was on the mangled bundle at her feet. He crept forward like a stalking panther, silent, metallic gaze locked on the salvaged corpse. I had ears, he noticed. Large, black ears - just like Junior's, and it smelled vaguely of silt. He wondered when the feisty pup would return home, and what she would make of this dead thing's likeness to her.

The thoughts floated into the endlessness of his mind like flecks of dead ash, never crossing, never connecting.