Verdigris Ravine I feel it fade from the inside

However, his doting mother was never far from her baby. Kusuma hated to leave him, and hated to leave Asun-love; but she was hungry and Zoug had been late. Thus, she had gone off to hunt! For the first time since his birth, and carried in a pointed jaw the swaying form of a fat hare. 

Hares were among the mother's favorite of foods. 

Upon returning and subsequently seeing her little treasure from the safety of the dark, the rabbit fell to the sandy ground in a matter of heartbeats.

Harta! she yipped in surprise, slender paws stretching over the sand to close the small gap between them. What Harta do, out of den? See world?! not knowing if he had been picking up on language, she nosed him over. 

No injuries. 

He smelled of nothing but the den, Asun, and her. 

Her racing heart began to slow. 

outside danger, Harta! No see without bunda to keep hawk away. Harta stand out against sand much!

To calm herself, she gave him a few nervous licks between his ears.