Dragoncrest Cliffs Pearl Celebration

Suzu, as well, vibrated with excitement. It took her no time, once the invitation was sent out, for her to dash forward and begin pawing through the clutch. She shuffled a few beneath her low-hanging belly to keep them as hers and then moved back slightly to investigate them. One of them, she liked- but she traded the other two out. She reached for a replacement oyster, only for Stingray to snatch it up before she could grab it. She huffed, and chose another. 

She shuffled them carefully back to her spot, figuring if she treated her oysters nicely, they'd give her something pretty. She worried there wouldn't be a pearl, but the leaders had assured them that there would be pearls. She felt bad for Wing, who would be excluded from the ceremony. She'd offered such a good idea at the last pack meeting- but she felt sure that she would receive her promotion soon. 

She tried not to think about Meerkat and Njord, who had been demoted, and who would be leaving them. She had yet to talk to Swordfish about it- but this event was a wonderful distraction. 

She looked at her oysters. Still, she had a good feeling about the first one she'd grabbed. 

Stingray let out a whoop- he'd found a pearl. She craned her neck to see what it was, and made a soft coo when she saw the glint of silver at his paws. He held it up for all to see, and she admired it with starstruck eyes. He'd gotten a pearl on his first try! And it was like a tiny moon!

She chewed around the edges of her chosen oyster, and pried it open. Nothing looked like a pearl. She slurped up the meat on one half, and found nothing there. On the other side, she prodded with her nose until she felt something firm. She emitted a soft, eager whine as she began to press in the area with her paw, until the pearl popped out, and rolled into the oyster's other, empty shell. 

"Yheeeeee!" Barely above a whisper, she uttered a tiny squeak of excitement. Hers was peach, the shade of a beautiful sunset. She turned it over and over with a careful claw, and ate up the rest of her oyster meat. It was soooo pretty! She looked around, feeling she'd gotten something that was just about as good as it got- but happy to see what treasures the others found as well.