Alpine Lake i could tell you i was dying, but you wouldn't know for three more years

@Catalina

caiaphas had left the pups under blondine's care, and followed yet another scent out of redhawk's borders. this one belonged to a female bobcat, and she stalked hastily after its winding trail until at last it deposited her at the rim of a wide lake.

she glanced at the dried banks, where tiny fissures snaked through the summer-beaten earth and spread everlong across the crusted bank. along the lapping shore the clear pawprints of many intersected, creatures come and gone for a drink.

she stopped at the water and drank her fill, and then looked around her in discontent.