The Sunspire I got a heart like a truck

joining! <3

Her inspection turned up a few odd facts. It's body was tensed beyond the normal stiffness of death, curled in a way that eerily reminded her of insects she'd felt. It had died quickly, but only a few things could kill like that and not leave a wound behind. Her guess was the poison affected it's heart. Suffocation would have sounded different and left different signs behind.

Fennec moved until she found a nearby drop off, a place where the path cut off in a sheer end. It wasn't easy but she eventually managed to roll the corpse over and send it off the path entirely. She didn't want to risk one of theirs (or one of Epochs) finding it and thinking it was an easy meal.

She scrubbed her paws raw in the stream before she made her way back to the den. She wasn't sure what she should do with the rest of the plant she'd found, but with how dangerous it was, she didn't think she liked even keeping it behind thorns. Bury it or destroy it?

Germanicus might have an opinion. He would know if they could use... what's this?

Fennec froze as her paw touched the unfamiliar sensation of stone, set in an unexpected place as she approached the den. Fortunately she was used to this sort of thing and felt before she tripped, but she wondered what had set them there.

We don't have neighbors, do we? she thought, amused, as she investigated. Didn't seem like it, though there was another stone not far from the first. Strange.