Heron Lake Plateau i can see a heart-sized hole inside this bottle, where i'm pondering a midnight swim

When Towhee caught wind of the intruder's scent, every blade of fur along her spine bristled. She immediately dropped what she was doing—searching for @Niamh to catch up on the latest happenings with her friend—and began tracking the smell to its source. She found herself encroaching upon the den site belonging to Caiaphas and her ilk. The Beta had been meaning to catch up with this particular batch of newcomers but hadn't gotten the chance. And these certainly weren't the best of circumstances.

Her orange eyes hovered on the den's mouth several dozen meters behind the harlequin Kappa, then swiftly swept sideways to Caiaphas, then included the nearby Tegan. "We need to find it and kill it," she said in the same stony voice she always used, lacking any tone whatsoever.