Ocean's Breath Plateau dancing doe

joining/participation optional! nanta tag for visibility as she has a joining thread <3

screaming woke the first warrior from a fitful sleep. he had been dozing outside his own lodge, wanting to be available should @Rodyn or @Dutch need him for anything.
a child's screams. he first veered to the seal hunter shelters, assuring himself that his five young still slept between the homes.
and then he began to shout them awake. "@Sea Hunter, @Sirmiq, chagak, @Puffin, come with me. fast." he was certain @Marina would attend @Simbelmyne at this horrible time, and was thankful for it. @Kilalurak would stay behind to help mind the small children katmai, sirimiri, and kitimat,  and chakliux instructed his pale lookalike daughter to find valiant and @Nantahala, firmly insisting that they stay together and keep the young pups watched. @Ponderosa, @Raindrop, and @Silvertip were invited to the collection of wolves congregated at the seal hunter lodges, for moontide would do well to protect their core at this time.
@Taggak and @Tullik he bid go to their leader and to @Aditya. perhaps another patrol could be started in the opposite direction. they must waste no second of time.
their shadows whisked on swift feet. the seal hunter and his children would search as far as seaside moors, starting from the place of disturbed sand and wolven prints.
who would take a child?
who would ruin their peace again?
a second invasion had happened while they were away. dutch had come back horribly changed. now a thief stole the child of the panther. his lips twisted.
he thought darkly of the skin strip he had taken from marina's attacker, how it still twisted in the breeze outside their lodge. let a head join it there for a second trophy.