to grandma's house

In the flurry of movement, Modesty didn't realise she was missing a body, that one of Deluge's children had been missing for quite some time now. She saw three bodies racing down the Ravine and she followed after them at a casual lope, towards the blankets that Kenway's cattle dogs had laid out, the platters of meats and cheese and fish scattered about more than even her own pups could eat.

"O-ho! Too close to call! You're both so fast! Looks like I lost..." The realisation that only two children had come had her peering back towards the treehouse, back molars clenching as she considered how she had left her daughter in the care of the healer. If one had chosen to stay with their mother, no concern, if it was another to the tally of the missing...

No need to weigh the children down with her concerns. She turned back to them with a bright smile, "Maybe some of the others are hungry too? This looks like too much just for us..." She tipped back her head to call for the other children of the pack, nothing like a picnic to get to know your niece and nephew, right?

"speech"