Otatso Wetlands will you be ready when the straw-boss calls?

better late than never right? is it ok to backdate this a little?

indra had traveled far from bearclaw, spurned on by the tightening hand of desperation. laurel had noticed lucas' disappearance was not just a day-trip with his father; xan had not seen him, and none of the children had either. her throat tightened, her heart plummeted; where had bearclaw's cherubic dancer gone -- and to what end?

her search carried her away from her children, adopted and birthed, but it was not her offspring that was on her mind that day, but laurel's. it would break laurel, indra knew it -- and she was overwhelmed with anxiety to find lucas.

all she wanted was for their family to be safe, happy, secure -- and every time it seemed they were in reach of such contentment, fate cruelly yanked it away.