Dawnlark Plains the sun on my head is my crown

for @Jasny! please let jasny respond first & consider this private until the pair are at the borders. technically takes place first in herbalist's cache.

it is quiet in morningside, lately. there is not as much food is she is used to, although she is faring just fine. she is a child after all. but ah, this child has a roaming itch that cannot be contained just inside the territory anymore.  she is nearly four months old now, and already she is growing into her rounded, panther-like features. a spray of orange now rings her throat (like her mother, oh yes, she is like momma!)  the sun trickles in from the tangled foliage above and dapples the child as she rests beneath a tree, reflecting.