Blacktail Deer Plateau i told you i didn't want to go to this dinner

Prevost was gone. Peregrine scarce, too. The love and joy she had felt upon reuniting with her eldest daughter had been dashed away—because of course it had. When could they ever be happy? When could they ever be content?

Now, Maegi searched every inch of the plateau, looking for the girl. An all-too familiar tightness had settled in her chest, constricting her breath. She couldn't leave, not without warning, to search. She was tied to her other children—

Jaes, this wasn't even her child to lose!

It was time. She stood in one of the open fields of the territory, sides heaving. Anxiety prickling her skin like cold raindrops seeping through the pelt. She howled for @Mou, first, then @Phox.

The man would not seek Prevost out for their sake. . .but, perhaps, he would for his own.

If he knew.