Redtail Rise first light

Relic wasn’t the only one to gain a new sense today. Unlike him, Masquerade did not outwardly react to the world’s newest dimension other than to hunker down on the dusty den floor, all four legs tucked tightly beneath her body. In motionless silence, she observed this new phenomenon of colors, lights and shadows.

Her head turned when her brother began to move toward their mother’s paw, the motion smooth now thanks to her strengthening tendons. Her fresh eyes followed what amounted to smudges, the pupils expanding and contracting against her stonewashed irises. Masque squinted without being aware, nose atwitch, her young brain slowly making the connection between Relic’s familiar scent and this particular blurry apparition.