Ankyra Sound One time friends, I had a ma, I even had a pa

There was little Raleska could do, even with Svalinn alongside her. The adults had already hauled ass across the beach, leaving her and her brother in the smoking sand. Looking helplessly at Svalinn with a small shrug, the bony girl sighed and went back to where her mother had instructed her to wait.

She felt sorry for Niamh in that moment, and even more sorry for herself. All she had wanted was to see her old friend, but her mom's newer, meaner friends had chased her off.. and Raleska wondered how long it would take for them to turn on her mother the way Niamh had -- if that would ever happen.

She sniffed and crossed one paw over the other as she sat down, and there she waited for the adults to come back from their hounding, or for her mother to return from her expedition.