This place was new and strange to her. Absentia didn't know what to think of it, for though it was beautiful it also presented the threat of strangers. Strangers... were generally bad. They made fun of the child and called her names. They threatened her safety. Just like her mama and papa. They were nowhere to be found. They would come back, she was sure. There had been yelling and so much scary noise when she ran away. Mama had told her to run, that they would come look for her... but they never came.

The pup was skinny... Tia had hardly eaten much. She was scared to scavenge, especially when the birds or bigger animals came to steal the prey away. It was often that she went on hungry, and the little green girl was getting weaker by the day.

Underneath a strawberry bush she lay now, blending in part with the leaves itself. Her head was on her paws, stomach rumbling and complaining about how empty it was. The child was miserable. Tears stained her cheeks, a whimper leaving her little form. Did no one else in the world care about her? Was she going to die soon?

Cold air surrounded the southern lands as the woman trekked through the grove. The smell of the berries that were now rotting and turning old and mushy surrounded her nostrils and caused her to gag slightly. The trees and bushes were beginning to lose their leaves and scatter around the landscape and Yurella smiled.

She continued to walk and admire the scenery when something caught her attention. A chubby hare had jumped out of its burrow and wandered off, making it a good opportunity to hunt. The dame licked her maw and stayed in the shadows, going low and stalking her meal. When it was close enough, she leapt forward and pounced, grabbing the hare and shaking life from its body.

But, before she could dive into her kill, she happened to see something out of the corner of her eye and when she got a closer look, it made her heart break.

A pup, a green girl who was skin and bone was hiding under a tree. She grabbed her kill and approached, dropping her meal a couple feet from the girl as she backed away and sat down a couple yards, showing that she wasnt going to harm her.