Heron Lake Plateau Sooner rather than later

Despite her typically gentle nature, Raven had no problem being a hard-ass when a situation called for it...unless it was Towhee she was dealing with.

She was putty in Towhee's hands. The alpha could never be angry with her sister, and it certainly helped that Towhee was strangely better at diplomacy than Phox was. As the younger Redhawk explained, Raven felt the last dregs of her anger slowly seep away, leaving her feeling tired and defeated in its wake. Was this the way things would always be? Friends and loved ones would always leave and break her heart? She knew it didn't have to be bad -- it hadn't been bad at all when Wifi had left, after all -- but Towhee had been by her side literally since birth. The concept of living without her around here was alien to her. She hated it.

She sighed, all resentment gone from her face. Only sadness lingered in her eyes now as she looked at Towhee and said in a somber tone, signing along with her words mostly out of habit by now, -"I wish there was something I could say to make you reconsider, but it sounds like you two are pretty set on--"- She was suddenly interrupted by the soft whuppeting of footfalls on grass immediately preceding the impact of a tiny wrecking ball hitting her square in the legs. She wasn't hit hard at all, but since she was using one of her paws to sign and thus standing on only three legs, she stumbled awkwardly and nearly fell over on her side, making a lot of less-than-graceful sounds in the process. A bewildered glance revealed that Fennec had been her assailant, and she couldn't help the gale of giggles that took her then. These damn kids, omg. They were so Redhawks!

She affectionately ruffled the fuzz on Fenn's head with her tongue and, with a gentle nudge in the right direction, directed her toward her dad. Phox's attention was on finding his wayward son, who surely had to be close by. The thorny subject at hand was momentarily put on pause while Raven scanned their surroundings and sniffed the air, thinking she smelled the other half of Phox's dastardly duo but uncertain if it was just residual scent clinging to Fenn's fur.