Redhawk Caldera Warp 1.9.

Niamh had begun to sift through various thoughts in her mind when Towhee spoke, suggesting they wake the kids, but Niamh shook her head. She, personally, loathed being awakened when she was napping. "I think let them sleep a bit. I'll try an' thaw this thing out a bit." She said, realizing that that might be a better idea than trying to feed them something hard and frozen. She pulled the carcass toward her and stuffed it in under her belly, and settled back down over it, covering it completely as she did so. That fact made her frown. Her middle wasn't the same as it used to be. She used to have a nice trim line to her waist, but now...It seemed she'd been switched from being a show hen to being nothing more than one with a belly designed to carry puppies and thaw out frozen meals. 

By the time she had the rabbit carcass stuffed underneath her where it might warm up a bit, Towhee'd begun to ask her questions about a 'her' that had showed up and it took Niamh a moment to register that she was talking about Meerkat. She needed to pay attention to her friend, rather than mourn the loss of her waistline. "Not sure. I thought first she'd mistaken my howl, and thought that I'd said 'bear' not 'cougar' But she was way too upset for that to have been all it was." She admitted. "It'd be too much of a coincidence, wouldn't it?" She asked. For a cougar to have attacked the Caldera and a bear to have attacked the Glen the next day? Incredulous. "Bears're supposed to be asleep, anyway, aren't they? 'Specially with this weather- I think there's a storm coming." She said. "She seemed really rattled." It was an understatement, of course. Meerkat was devastated. So there was a possibility, she dreaded, that something had happened in the Glen.