Dawnlark Plains Mothering

cameo for now

instead, or in addition, she found baby kasatka.  she was nestled in the corner in a pile of puppies, trying to sleep... but sleep did not seem to find her as easy these days.  she worried that if she slept that she too would grow cold, she too would never see another sunrise.  

and she saw what daddy being gone did to momma, and river, and even.

her head rose as pema arrived at the den and for a moment she forgot, she expected it to be daddy... and then it wasn't.