Ravensblood Forest the woods are lovely, dark and deep

This is set after a number of not-yet-made threads in Saēna's timeline so it'll be damn confusing to anyone that follows her. >_>

Saēna had been introduced to a world of knowledge that admittedly she wanted nothing to do with. The truth of her birth had come out, although she still wholly refused Kisu having any part in her life whatsoever. He claimed to be her father, and her mother was dead, but she denied it so very fervently. Peregrine and Hawkeye were the only parents Saēna had ever known... And if Kisu was truly her real father, why had he been so absent for her entire life? Why had her mother died? Why had Osprey Junior picked on her? Was it because she was inherently different?

She had to admit, in some small and frightened part of herself, that there was something different about her. Although Pura could blend in with the Redleaf-DiSarinnos perfectly, she stuck out like a sore and mottled thumb. Supposedly, she looked like her dead mother, but who could say whether that was true? But, then again, Kisu wasn't the only wolf who had mentioned her dead mother. That ill beast at the river had as well...

Overcome by her thoughts and turmoil, the young Virtúte (if accounts were to be believed) left the plateau under the cover of the storm. Thunder and lightning had always comforted her, after all. She picked her way down the plateau's lengthy trail, to the river where Junior had washed away. Although her parents would have shit a brick if they saw it, Saēna plunged into the rushing water and, although she had never swam in a current before, she somehow made it out easily and unscathed.

Her lope brought her back into the forest where she had found Junior's corpse. She was nearing that very bend in the river when she very abruptly came up behind an enormous white cat (which smelled like shit, by the way, at least to the cub who had never smelled a cougar's musk before). She cowered away from its bulk, slowly sidestepping as though she might disappear into the bushes before it noticed her... But the reason she hadn't smelled it ahead of time would be the same reason it would smell her instantly.

For the time being, Saēna didn't notice the dark shape that the cat was focused on... Though her head shot up when a round of sharp barks went out and, frozen in place, she slowly swivelled her head in search of the source.