The Sunspire redeye reprisal

for @Jace

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After a period of rest and healing, she had begun to resurface on the regular to make her presence known among the mountain's slopes. Steadily, she integrated herself back into duty and activity. Patrol, hunting, and otherwise. Here and there she roved.

Her limp had healed up, no longer hindering her step and the wounds on her neck were mostly better. Only the one that had gotten nasty on the very back of her nape was still worth thinking about. The rest, better. She was almost back to a whole normal -- although not yet full strength.

She moved quietly from the cover of a forested stretch of mountain towards the Oasis, idly wondering if she may encounter others along the way. It had been a while since she had seen several faces around here, although it was mostly of her own fault. Aleera was all she had seen much of, for obvious reasons, so Amekaze wondered how they all fared. She guessed others had been keeping busy. Ferdie was probably occupied with the puppies (still something she was inexplicably uneasy about), Jace was likely around doing what needed done, and others like Fang, Summer, Vienna, and Kipling just to name a few, she could not say.

She lowered her muzzle for a drink once she reached the water's edge, then peered skyward to contemplate the cloudy skies. It was a day like many others.