Blackfoot Forest I fall apart, down to my Core

She tried as she ate, to remember anything at all about her babies. She willed it and closed her eyes, praying for it but nothing came to her. She missed the glance Howl gave to Mawk and simply began to clean her lips of the hare's blood. Once clean she looked to Mawk again as he came close, tensing up a bit but relaxing once more as he made no move to harm her. Leaning against him with almost hesitant slowness she stood up and began to walk away from the den, eyes focusing forward despite the trembling of her body and the flattening of her one good ear. "yeah, please take me...home" she agreed, hesitating on the word home for a moment before pushing on again.