Redhawk Caldera yellow flicker beat

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Magpie was pretty clueless about the current state of the caldera, unaware that their number had slipped so greatly — locked away in her den to heal for most of the pack's infancy, she hadn't met the majority of her pack mates yet, anyway. However, the more she left her den and tromped through the territory, the more the silence felt oppressive and lonely. She felt the good mood she had woken up with dissipate quickly, replaced with the forlornness she had grown accustomed to while struggling to survive alone.

Bored and lost in her thoughts, the youth came to a small patch of fungi. Most of the land had become dull and brown, a season she had never experienced before — she missed the green explosion of life in spring and summer, the seasons that were the bulk of her memories. Her mother had taught her that the earth died at some point in the year, but she was surprised to see even this odd kind of growth while the land was presumably dying.