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It was a bright sunny day in early spring. There was still a chill to the breeze that blew through the clearing with it's well stocked pond, but it was a perfect day to doze on a sun warmed rock and watch the fish. On a normal day there would have likely been at least one male ulaya doing just that, but the family that claimed this place was traveling. It was slightly unusual for one of the pair, the original claimant of the place being very much a homebody. In fact their neighbors were his parents and his aunt. Mr Homebody's mate however was very much a traveler and managed to coax him into some wandering along with their almost grown children.

So the tranquil scene should have just that, the inhabitants gone just a quiet place waiting for full spring and the return of it's family.... should have been....

The petite round-eared ulaya was far far from the island she had called home from the time she'd washed up on it's beach as a kit. She had been raised by the island's native seabirds. She barely remembered her parents and siblings, just enough to know she was a ulaya and not a bird. It had taken a lot to finally make the trip from tiny island to the native lands of her birth. Now she was traveling through a forest the unfamiliar scents completely hiding the scent of the sea.

Tired and hungry she found herself in a meadow, the scent of fresh water drew her toward the pond near it's center. She hadn't been old enough to learn about territories and markers, so she hadn't noticed that the land she was traveling across was claimed. She knew only that the scent of water was a comfort and the rocks that surrounded it were exuded a glorious warmth as she climbed across them, settling on one with a flat top that was a perfect place to settle down and rest.