Despite the horrible burrow raid and the loss of two pups, the Isikaras weren't worst off. Izzy's little son Harry made it and the next month he got three playmates in the form of Sundance's fifth litter.
The group had seen no sign of the Cinnbars or Vyrwolves, and food was still plentiful, no worse dangerous can, although there were a few times the retreat to the bolt hole was in play.
All four pups soon went out foraging and Sundance watched fondly as the pups learned how to get their own food, there wasn't much luck.
Harry was more interested in playing with his mother's tail. While Boots and Mocha didn't really do much, even their father walked up to them with a skink in his mouth they didn't know that they were suppose to eat it.
Their older sister Hotspot, however, got into the action and was most likely the first and only pup who got a taste of solid food. Envy wasn't really happy that her little sister took her scorpion.
At midday the group retreated to the shade for a siesta, but of course the guards were posted. Amongst them was Bronze from Sundance's first litter.
At one, he and his sisters were now mature adults, not longer the babies of the group, now they were helping out with the duties, babysitting was one of those tasks, along with helping the pups learn and sentry.
Bronze was a useful sentry. With his father Indus and uncle (though not related) Saignee, they were scouting the area while the group rested and relaxed.
But they were looking out just for preditors, they were on sharp lookout for roving males from different groups, for Indus this was important because Sundance would soon be ready to mate again.
But lucky no potential suitors came calling and soon the Isikaras returned to their tasks of finding food, and this time the pups made more of a effort to find food.
But just because no rovers had showed up didn't mean there were any. Fritz began making growl calls and as the group investigated the males became agitated. The scents of two males not from their group had been left on their territory but relief quickly came when they found that the two moved on, apparently there were better prizes.
Despite the slight scare, Indus quickly stuck to Sundance's side, if a rover targeted Sundance and mated with her then he might be ousted and Indus had enough of living as a submissive male.
He would watch carefully.
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