Faith watched the young Snowy as she flew before turning her head to the sides. It was faint but with her hearing, she could hear it. She knew that Windstream would hear it shortly as well. The screeching of owls was getting louder. Passing a large river, she swooped down before landing on a branch. "We can rest here for a moment. Listen," Faith said before angling her head up. The hoots and screeches of the owls close by in the Mirage had fallen into a beat, a rhythm even. The gossiping would start shortly as the light was approaching but for now, the communication resolved in rhythm and music. At least, that's what the elders called it. Faith had yet to understand the concept but it was pretty catchy when they started the beat.

Windstream heard the sounds as she landed near Faith and closed her eyes to listen much more closely to the sound. She didn't understand why they would be talking so much, as to her talking would make her much more tired, but as she listened she had a feeling they would do this all the time. She opened her eyes and looked at Faith. "Is this where the owls go to talk, gather, and rest?" She asked as her voice was already getting much quieter from her drowsiness.

|Illuison|
Illuison headed out of the camp to hunt. He went down the grassy hill, into the breeding grounds. He grass was taller than him! He smiled. He loved the rustling of the grass, the birds chriping, and all of the smell's down here. His ears went forwards as he heard the far off call of a bull, and the chirps of cows.

The cow's never talk to the bulls, so she is talking to other cows. His eye's squinted. He saw the bull hiding behind a tree. He crouched, and slowly headed for it. Once he was 100 feet away, he stopped. The bull was young, maybe a year. And it was small! He waited for it to come out. As it stepped pout he took off after it, leaping up onto it's back, and bitting its neck until it fell the ground dead. He began to drag it away.

|Gold|

"We are here to welome the pack back! We brought food." He nodded to the three deer laying on their side.

Faith tilted her head over to Windstream, noting her tiredness before answering, "Yes, we are on the outskirts. Come, I'll give you a quick tour before we find the hollows." She swooped down before weaving a few trees, coming up to land in a pine tree. She pointed a wing at each bundle of trees. "The group of oak trees are the gossip trees. That's where you can find out the latest news and get food. That group of willows over there is where you can gather to learn about the forest and other territories. And the pine trees that we are on are the hollows. There's a big one in this one over here." Faith said, pointing out a small pine tree next to them. Flying over, she gestured for Windstream to go on in.

Flame tilted her ears to the pup that came up to her. She could tell from the scent that it was Spruce. "Aunt Flame, How come my dad leaves so much and doesn't stay that long?" Spruce asked and Flame sighed before licking the pup on his head. "Your dad is simply busy right now. Once he is done helping his friend, he will be back for good." Flame responded gently, nuzzling the pup.

Shadow

Shadow padded down the mountain, stifling a yawn. He was tired and would rather sleep right now. But he wanted to get back to his pups and mate. Padding through the forest, he caught onto a scent. Lemon. Following it, he came upon the big wolf before walking to his side. "How's Lean and the pups?" Shadow asked Lemon, his ears rotating slowly as they took in all of the sounds of the forest.

Spruce felt Flame's nudge and sighed, Aunt Flame is right he thought Dad will come back...He stood to his feet.He padded over to his mom and put his weight on her bringing her out of her dream land.He smiled and his mom looked at him and dashed back into the cave peeking around the corner.

Lemon looked at Shadow and smiled, "Well let me see last I know Lean was half asleep and the pups were well curled up and asleep."his smile disappeared."I think we should get back to them anyways." and with the last words he troted towards the den."Keep up!"he hollered over his shoulder as he took off into a run towards the den.

Lean watched Spruce dash back into the cave and shook her head.She walked towards the den but stopped in her tracks hearing her brother's voice.Her face lite up with a smile, she turned sharply to where his voice came from.She wiped her smile off and decided to play a little trick on him...

Maple & Oak: Maple looked at her brother.She looked at her mom and spruce and padded over to Spruce letting Oak get up from his pinned self.Maple looked at her mom and smiled to her brothers "She knows hes on his way." she smiled happily and yelped a sign of Joy.Oak looked at his sister in confusion and shook his head "How does mom know dads coming back?" his head coocked.MAple turned around "Because females can sense these things.DUH." her sassyness coming out a little.

Shadow flicked his ears at Lemon as the male started back to the den. He was about to follow when a weight on his back made him turn his head. Icicle curled up on his back, yawning. Her white fur was starting to shed with the coming spring. "Took you long enough," She complained and Shadow smirked slightly before replying, "Well, I didn't see you coming along for the ride." Icicle cackled in response. Shadow chuckled slightly before starting back to the den in a slow trot. The slow trot was mostly for Icicle but also so that Shadow could think of how to greet his mate and pups.

Windstream flew over to Faith and looked around. As Faith started talking she listened as much as she was able to with her looking around. She stopped her lingering gaze up at the pine trees, the hollows. "So, let me see if this is correct; we'll be staying in the hollows today and then go searching for that creature tomorrow, right?" She asked Faith as she fluffed her feathers to try and keep warm.