Lost Creek Hollow A star is born

I am so sorry I missed this!!!

Life in the Hollow passed quickly for Ibis. She felt good to be among such an active community even if she was, mostly, on the outside of it; it didn't appear to matter that her father was the leader. Although she was welcomed among them, she still pined for the familiarity of her large family back at Elysium — specifically, she had begun to miss her brother Okeanos tremendously. The thought of returning there hadn't yet entered her mind, so instead she'd busied herself with finding pretty things for her collection. Maybe one day her brother would show up for a visit and Ibis could show it off?

The little wolf was on the prowl for something new, something extra special, with just such a moment in mind. The creek's edge sometimes had interesting new plants, most of which she'd added to her collection already, but she was roaming alongside the water's marshy fringe with hope that something new would surface. That was when she heard a bizarre sound — a crackling, a crunching, a squeaking of teeth against some sort of material that was alien to the wilderness. She thought, rather dumbly, it was a new kind of bird — and so the little bird went off in pursuit of the noises.

Lured through the forest by the crunching, Ibis had her head up and eyes fixed on the trees overhead (because in her childish logic she expected to find a bird in the trees --) and when she came upon an outpost of scattered stones, positioned almost like a natural set of tables, and the wolf sprawling across one such stone -- she was surprised, to be frank.