Blackfeather Woods Blip

Anyone welcome. Maybe @Puffin, @Celara, or @Minnow since he hasn't met them yet?

The hunt, at last, had gone well. Dozens of tries. A hundred failures. Each day Taikon ventured out to try again and again to prove to himself that he had regained the strength to be useful. Yet, each day he found himself digging out prey from the frozen caches that the pack had left for him, many of which were filled by Takiyok. He needed to get to a point where he could help her and others. They needed him, and he needed to be something other than a leper in his existence if he was going to be able to provide... his children.
The idea scared him. He remembered Cella, and remembered what losing her and the babes had felt like. It did not matter how much time passed. Losses like that were permanent, marking the soul in a terrible stain of a colour that never washed out, no matter what you tried to hide it with.
The hunt that succeeded felt like any other hunt. His strength was slowly returning, and the only difference felt like luck. Somehow, everything had clicked into place and his teeth had snapped directly onto a cottontail, which squealed and flailed in his grasp. It seemed to take a long time for the animal to go limp, but it did eventually. He carried it forward proudly, wishing only to present it to one of his pack mates. If no one else, then of course to @Takiyok, who would be pleased at the success.
But a flash distracted him. A blip of white light shone over head, and he looked to it, confused. It was so fast, he assumed it must have been his imagination. The earth shaking that occurred after felt strange, but mild enough that he was sure he was imagining things.
Weird.. he said to himself, voice muffled through the fur of the rabbit he carried.