Bearclaw Valley Single file, like soldiers on a mission.

The afternoon sun had vanished behind a cluster of nasty clouds, leaving the grassland outside the territory to drop a few degrees. The boy only noticed because he was standing by @Averna's boulder. He was leaning against the mound which marked the middle of the valley entrance, partway hiding in its shadow.

That shadow grew deep and cold, so he got to his too-big feet and sulked a few steps away from it. His caretaker's scent was strong in the direction he was heading but he was too distracted by a soured mood to notice, and idly kicked at a pile of (what he thought was) debris, scattering some bird bones that had been placed carefully upon the earth by mistake.