Blacktail Deer Plateau Starlight dragons

It had been ten days since Osprey Jr. went missing, three days since Osprey Jr's remains were found, and two days since Saēna had retreated into the sanctuary of her mind. Her outburst at Tytonidae had been the first sign that the tragedy was far too much for the young girl to handle, and now she had spent two entire days staring at a tree root. She was disgusted with how it resembled Junior's spine.

Without the loud-mouthed, bold Redleaf-DiSarinno to order her around (although it had been toned down a lot lately), the omega of the pups was without direction. She wasn't nearly as far gone as Ty, who had been odd before the accident and was a basket case now, but still there was some shred ofsanity lost in her. The more she stared at that tree root, the more the world around her seemed to slip away into something muted and grey. Perhaps if she stared long enough, she could find Ty's happy place and fall into it with her.

Get up, said a voice from behind, and Saēna dismally wrenched her head around to see who was bothering her. Standing there was a sight that took her breath away completely: it was Osprey Jr., whole and complete and very much not dead (the downside being that she was entirely a figment of Saēna's imagination). The cub gasped and suddenly blurted out into thin air, “You're alive!”