Heron Lake Plateau they escaped the weight of the darkness

Unlike her fussy sister, though not unlike her opportunistic brother, Eshe was quite content to be carried -- and would even protest to being put down whenever the time came to give Deshyr's tender jaws a much-needed rest. The entire ordeal had exhausted the middling child, even despite walking less than a fifth of the way herself, so by the time they arrived she wasn't as interested in their returned older sister as the others appeared to be.

She turned a curious ear towards the commotion at the back of their family train, but her gaze mostly remained forward -- locked warily on the approach of two dark strangers -- as she settled irritably between Breccan and Deshyr; quietly feeding from their respectively bitter and apprehensive moods. With a glare creasing her little grey brow, Eshe watched the adults interact with her expression fixed in an award-winning display of suspicion.