Swiftcurrent Creek No one suspects at all

Some powerplay! Let me know if it's not okay

@Akavir was home.

Mae didn't know how she felt about that, so she avoided him, mostly. And that was easy, because it was just how things were. Once or twice it occurred to her to show him the piece of amber she'd taken to carrying with her, but she couldn't shake the fear that he would take it from her. So she didn't.

She was playing with it when she noticed her father approaching, perhaps passing through on his way elsewhere; Mae didn't dare to hope that he'd come to see her. She froze in the midst of passing it from one paw to the other, and hid it instinctively under her foreleg. Mae held her breath, hoping he hadn't seen it.