Jade Fern Grove have you no idea you're in deep

she'd found the grove to be good hunting grounds since her hunt with the mongol, and had returned yet again to rummage through the foliage in search of a quick catch. she had little knowledge of pregnancy besides Cat's, but knew that both Pema and Aviana seemed near to their time, and the hunters of the pack would be reduced to five, at most. Valette's offer lingered in the forefront of her mind, but she would hold out until her pride wavered in the face of her pack's starvation. 

her breath shifted the arching fronds of a fern, and again she cursed the heat. humid and oppressive, it bore down on her thick pelt, and she hadn't stopped panting since that morning. the prey had the intelligence to vanish in the face of the early afternoon's burning heat, but Dawn persisted, finding comfort in the shade of the canopy and the odd, faltering river she came across.

@Fen