Vessie is in optime and brought a friend. :3
Vesper had been coolly interested in the plight of the fledglings, and had in fact snatched some of their meat, but it was a completely different experience with a child-minded coydog at her side.
“It’s a damn shame,” Asher said for the umpteenth time, shaking his head, his hands still clasped over his heart where they’d leapt at the sight of a hawklet crashing. Cord dangled from his fingers, and Ves was more interested in the wooden piece at the end of it than his sad babbling. She flattened her ear and snatched it from his hands, smoothing a thumb pad over the half-finished carving. The figure was blocky, but she could tell what it was with some imagination, and she’d no doubt it would be great after Asher finished it—not that their opinions were the ones that mattered.
As usual, the collie had walked ahead while she mulled over things, and she could hear a bark of disgust coming from him. “Is she eating it?”
Vesper walked past him, casually smacking the back of his head. “That’s what coyotes do, dumb—” She cut the insult off as her blue eyes fell on the swollen form lying on the ground. It was impossible not to recognize the girl, and fear seized her throat as she rushed forward, ignoring her companion’s yap of surprise. Seeing Emmanuelle prone on the ground, especially with hawks flying about, she anticipate the worst. She nearly crashed to her knees beside her, reaching out with a paw to jostle her shoulder. “Are you all right?” It looked like she was breathing, and there were no injuries, so maybe—maybe she was asleep. If that were the case, it was a bit too late to let her fall back into her nap now; the Centurion withdrew her hand awkwardly.
Asher, meanwhile, had sighted another hawklet on the ground, and while tut-tutting about the cruelty of the world and gravity, moseyed on over to it. He let out a strangled yelp afterward, blabbering to Ves that it was alive, and she could only growl back at him to put it out of its misery while she attended to Emma.
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