Stone Circle When the party is over

Please let @Nanook and @Kaito post first, later this thread will be open to all. :)

Valette knew that it was getting dark soon, but before she would retire she wanted to visit Nanook and her babies. She usually would go for a daily check, it gave her a nice distraction from her rebellious daughter. She still couldn't believe that Arlette, of all her children, got pregnant. It was mostly that the matriarch felt left out. She wanted to be pregnant as well, she wanted to have her own pups. She disliked the idea of being a grandma. She was not that old yet. Valette made her way through the territory on an automatic pilot mode. She had been living here for most of her life so she knew her way around the territory almost blind.

It was also the reason why she noticed the thread extremely late. The scent of pure terror filled her nose and shook the female from her thoughts. She was meters away from Nanook's den when right before her nose was Valette's biggest fear. A cougar ready to pounce. Her mother died because of a vicious cougar attack, being only 7 months when this happened it made a big impact on the female. It hadn't been left at that moment. Last season she also had to encounter one. Valette let out a yelp in shock seeing the vile thing before her and stood frozen in fear as the mountain lion instantly charged towards her, fangs bared. With these cats, fear overtook the matriarch and always triggered a freeze response instead of fight or flight.