Redhawk Caldera hazelnut

sorana was gone, and with her oldest's disappearance, teya slid into a bleakness from which she could not escape. she devoted each hour to the simple focus of feeding her children, while tears dazzled often upon her face and she looked desperately toward the borders as if she wished to be over them.
the beauty of their birth was marred by the absence of sorana. there was no reason to suspect something had happened to her, only that she had left, but of course teya could not know that. as often as she was able, she bundled herself out of the den, calling along the borderlands for her daughter.
returning with nothing, she slid among the pups and offered them another meal, eyes fixed unseeingly upon the den as she thought only of where sorana might have gone.