Dawnlark Plains i watched the fire that grew so low

her ears flattened when Shale began to speak, and she whirled away from the body, anger easily finding a focus, a target. "stop." but he continued, and her anger faded into more grief, and more confusion. her uncle seemed dangerously close to the deep end, leg twitching fanatically. she stepped towards him, ears flattened in sudden worry, when Sunny spoke and she noticed the girl. 

lies. death was all bad, and another burning shot of anger had her muscle past her brother and place a kiss on the girl's brow, glancing down at her. "Kas - Kitten. Can you do something for me? It's important - I need you to go find your ma, and stick close to her, ok? You'll make her feel better, and your ma needs all your love right now." she poked at the pups brow once more, wishing she could take her back herself, but knowing she could not leave Shale alone, not now.  "maybe Sunny can go with you, if you'd like." with that, she turned back to her brother, shooting him a glare that she hoped would be invisible to the girl. the girl didn't need to learn about death, not now, she needed to be with the warmth of Cat, and Cat needed her. 

ensuring that Sunny wouldn't try any more death talk, and attempting to ignore the pull towards Kasatka, she moved back towards Shale, howling once for @Pema and moving near the male, pressing against his twitch side. she couldn't quite muster the gooey caring stuff Pema was good at, and instead muttered, "listen. da - day died, murdock died. it's not bloody fair, but you can't do this. not now, Pema needs you, your kids need you. they're alive, Shale, and they need you."  she pressed against him them, emotions building up and choking her, but she remained pressed against her uncle, hoping desperately that Pema would arrive, that he'd snap out of it.