Verdigris Ravine Lessons

The sun guided her path today.

She had made a game out of avoiding the shadows cast by the rocky outcrops of their home, darting between sunlit dunes and stopping only to quench her thirst in a glistening stream. Her journey ended as a sound disturbed her silence. Head whipping round, the sunling caught sight of a girl; wetting her nose confirmed her to be one of the others. But still tribe - family.

Snaking her way closer revealed the source of the girl's displeasure. It was a bug, unfortunate enough to have found itself the plaything of the young tribekin - poor girl. There were more exciting things to do than play with bugs. The insect's trajectory was cut short by a streak of brown as Ki'ra caught the thing in her teeth, landed, and promptly ate it with one quick crunch, head tilting as her tongue drew lazily to clean her lips of any beetle debris.