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The concept of his parents purposefully leaving him was still quite new in Larus' little head, and while he had accepted Caiaphas as his new mother... It didn't sit right with him. Not entirely. Deep down he still missed her. The only thing he could do to stop thinking about the family he left behind - that had left him, tried to kill him - was wander. He explored the forest once more, but this time he did not seek a route out of it.
His meandering steps took him away from Caiaphas' grotto and in a semi-circle along the edge of the lands, but never did he leave the forest. The cliffs behind him were big and scary things - impossible for adults to scale, impervious to the child. As he ducked around the base of some sequoia trees, he heard a sudden crackling - then a screeching, or something like that. As Larus lifted his head to investigate the strange noise, a massive bough crackled and fell from above - directly above him.