Redhawk Caldera I love that you shake

Besides her lakeside confession to @Towhee Jr, she hadn’t mentioned her growing hatred for the caldera to anyone. There was no point, was there? She couldn’t leave. The pups were too young to relocate to a rendezvous site, much less an entirely different territory, and then there was @Killdeer. He had established a legacy of his own now but Towhee imagined it would not go over well if she dipped on him. She wasn’t sure she could live with herself if she let him down.

All of this meant that she felt a bit like a caged tiger these days. She still spent most of her time holed up with @Splendid Fairywren and @Tawny Lark, though the time soon approached when the girls would begin venturing from the den. The Elder didn’t know how to feel about this. What if one of them somehow wandered to the caldera and drowned, as she’d suspected had happened to little Peregrine? Should she proactively take them there and teach them how to swim?

She shot a vile glare at the body of water, then realized there was something situated in her eyeline. It was Cinar. Despite her chronically sour mood, she veered to approach, her head canting to the side when she saw him capture and crush a mouse between his paws. It was somewhat strange behavior, although…

-That looks like fun. Well, maybe “fun” isn’t the right word. It looks like it would be morbidly satisfying,- she remarked as she came to stand over him.