Wheeling Gull Isle renege

Moorhen watched, relieved and disappointed all at once as the male departed, leaving her bone, her wood pile, and herself in peace once more. She gnawed possessively at the bone a moment longer, waiting until Mou was out of sight before standing, stooping, and then wiggling through a narrow opening in the pile to small den dug underneath. She buried the bone there in the sand and covered it with a few boughs stolen from below a towering spruce before heading off to go and help with the clean-up once more. She went the opposite direction Mou had gone, however, and kept close to her wood pile lest it come under attack once more.