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She wasn't given much of an answer, but the more patient of the pair simply accepted it with the knowledge she would be worse off if she further questioned Junior. They ranged far from the rendezvous site, but contrary to popular belief, Saēna wasn't enough of a tattler or a worrier to bring it up. She followed in silence, keeping her thoughts to herself and silently wishing she could just go back home.

Junior paused at the edge of the plateau, and for a brief instant, they had the same thought about pushing one another over. Before either pup could act on their insensitive impulses, Junior pointed something below out to her, which coaxed the patchy pup to come closer to the edge. The thing O.J. pointed out was most certainly a bird, since it possessed winds folded up against its strange body, but the similarities to song birds ended there.

“Dunno,” she admitted unabashedly, though it was said in more of a mutter than anything. She didn't really want to get close enough to that thing to find out what it was, but some small maturing part of her thought that it was an inevitably no matter what she wanted.