Heron Lake Plateau No distance left to run

Figured I'd wrap!

"Huh," was Towhee's only reply. That was longer than she'd thought. She'd watched several brothers and sisters grow up in her time, yet she hadn't been paying much attention to those sorts of details. She wondered if their father would instinctively know when it was time or if someone else, like Raven, would have to give him a nudge.

Abruptly, the mercenary was pushing herself upright, then rising onto all fours. "Gotta take a..." -S-H-I-T,- she spelled, as if the pups could understand any of that. "Be right back, fam," Towhee said, lips twitching upward into an affectionate grin right before she loped away to drop a deuce.