Dawnlark Plains 'cause they will run you down, down til the dark

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few more words were exchanged until the more pressing matter at hand arose; in her pacing, she had been searching too for a scent trail which would mean the boy hadn't been a total idiot and ran off; her hopes, it seemed, were in vain. her tail twitched in barely contained frustration, auds flickering toward the borderline.  "Sunny did the same - ran off, and joined Easthollow. D- Grayday was devastated, but too injured to chase after him."  He would surely have felt the same now; she wondered, had he been here, would River run off in the first place. 

gaze flickered back to him, settling on his then drifting away like a nervous bird. "you go. you're better with them than me."  she did not understand them; of her father's first litter she'd grown closest to Easy. she doubted that she would be able to do the same with the boy that reminded her sharply of Sunny, who'd been insufferable until he'd become a yearling. her maturity, had she had it then, may have had things turn out differently. "I'm capable of leading alone for a while - he can't have gone far." he seemed too small to leave the general area, and Aditya was a good tracker.