so do we

Cascade had spent the morning on border patrol, Chaos following intently upon her heels. She had started taking the nine months old on patrols a while back, partly as a way to pick her duties back up and partly to start teaching him in the same way Valentines had taught her older children - and partly to just plain wear him out so he would stay out of trouble. She was reassured to find that his troubles as a puppy had not served to stunt his growth, as the adolescent was well on his way to being as large as Seraphim and Vana were.

She parted ways with her son by the orchard, and he trotted off into the forest while she returned to the knolls to see about hunting some young, foolish spring hares. She passed by a few that were still too young to bother with and a pregnant doe, but managed to catch an older buck instead. It was still early in the spring - she would wait patiently for the leverets to grow up a bit.

Licking the blood that remained of the meal from her muzzle the dark female stretched out atop one of the knolls to drowse and watch the buffalo.