Sunset Valley “no pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous”

What was going on?

The alert from Goldeneye had set him on a nervous edge and carefully he pushed beyond the lines of Dragonspine. Stalking and slinking about as if he tracked a herd rather than Raider.

It led him to the familiar slopes of the valley.

He had met her for the first time here.

Now he heard only disgruntled sounds. Something that further set him on edge. She hasn't responded to Goldeneye and now she wandered the Valley in...well, he did not know what. Pain? Tiredness? Was this a step in motherhood he knew nothing about?

Tentatively he warbled a call and wondered if she still would be unresponsive.