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After her little exclamation, she immediately withdrew. Scrambling back toward the water’s edge, she stepped on the stoat and blinked down at it blankly. She reluctantly glanced back at the bushes, not sure if she should say anything.

They were two consenting adults. And it was none of her business. She knew that. All the same, Druid was shocked. Heda was keeping things from her, important things. She didn’t understand why, though now was not the time to demand answers.

Instead, she shouted an embarrassed apology and hustled away from the lagoon. Druid didn’t know about them—for all she knew, they’d get right back to it—but she definitely needed to process before she could possibly talk about what she’d just witnessed.

The whole way back to Dawnleaf, she worried she might run into someone. What if she ran into @Etienne? She willed him to stay away, slinking back toward the den to settle among the drowsy pups. She avoided meeting Ava’s eye, in fact closing her own and pretending to sleep even as her mind raced.