Stone Circle my beating heart grew still

Valette trotted the sound of someone sobbing. The female had been high on alert to keep the members they did have and to keep them safe. The matriarch was putting all her effort into this pack. She saw Laurel with... Oh no. "Laurel!,"[b] she sounded mostly in her own shock to see her next to her sister's dead body. The leader trotted up to the female and licked over the top of her head with soft whines to comfort her. But Valette knew that it was never easy to loose a loved one and that comfort rarely helped.

[b]"Just let it all out," she spoke. Only then she noticed that Riley was hunger craved and biting into Indra. Valette tried to nudge Riley. "No, dear. Come. I will give you some real food," she assured him. She would make sure to have the pup being fed even though that would mean she would have to skip another meal herself. Laurel would probably be sick with grieve. "Mourn Laurel, we will give Indra a stone, for now I will feed Riley." She turned to Riley. "I will bring you to some food."