Blacktail Deer Plateau burnt earth

The sound of approach and the scent of lavender made Easy pop to attention. "Momma?" she yelped, running toward the sound - only to stop short as she realized it was a familiar, tawny shewolf. The wind was briefly knocked out of her sails, but she still found a smile and a quick wag of her tail for the woman. "Hi, Pema," she greeted, a little more subdued than usual. She approached the woman with a false spring in her step, but by the time she reached her, all she could do was fall down on Pema's pale paws and sob her little heart out.

"Why - " Sob. "won't - " Sob. "she - " Sob. "come back?"

The last words were twisted into a desperate yowl of pain. She'd been okay with her mother's absence at first, but she'd been gone so long, now - and Easy was far from okay with that fact.