Valley of Gold you may encounter the body

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He couldn’t find his mom. She wasn’t where he’d left her. Bushtit ran all around the caldera, sometimes even foolishly calling her name. He couldn’t find any good trails and could only think to run south again. Towhee had probably gone looking for him there.

When he hadn’t found her after a day or two of scouring the lowlands, Bushtit grew seriously worried. He thought about telling Soto. He wasn’t sure what the Segundo would do with the information but Bushtit didn’t know what else to do or where else to turn.

And then he saw her. The boy let out a small cry as his eyes caught on Towhee’s familiar figure in the distance. He didn’t hesitate to run toward her. He wondered who was with her but thought nothing of it, really, until he came closer and realized—his stomach plummeting—it was the wrong Towhee.

He stopped short, out of breath and feeling like he might be sick.