"Ugh, I feel awful," Olive complained quietly, keeping his head low, but raising it just high enough to ask, "Alpha, why are we up this early?"
Althea narrowed her eyes, and Marzanna looked to her leader to know if it was safe for her to say anything. "Olive, you and the others were woken up urgently because we need to talk," Althea told the Ambia, and her stern voice made the Ambia pipe down; he certainly knew his place, but he just had to be reminded of it once in a while.
"Marzanna and I surveyed the forest during the night," Althea went on to say, getting to the meat of the meeting once Olive had been shut down. "We saw nothing out of the ordinary; we came across a number of small creatures, but nothing unusual or dangerous," she recapped, and there was a glimmer of confusion in the group as Althea told of a very normal night to them. "Except for one thing," she added, and within a heartbeat, the four Paragon went from confused to shocked; worried, if not terrified.
"What happened?" Mihovil asked, sounding positively worried; something a little unusual to hear from the happy-go-lucky Paragon of the pack.
"We saw another Paragon a few hours before morning," Althea went on to say, and while that, too, sounded fairly normal, what was to follow did not. "We saw a Paragon covered in blood feasting on the carcass of another."
The words had been crude and to the point, and to a clan that barely experienced any threats of that extent, the news inspired gasps, mainly from Eevi and Mihovil.
Althea narrowed her eyes, and Marzanna looked to her leader to know if it was safe for her to say anything. "Olive, you and the others were woken up urgently because we need to talk," Althea told the Ambia, and her stern voice made the Ambia pipe down; he certainly knew his place, but he just had to be reminded of it once in a while.
"Marzanna and I surveyed the forest during the night," Althea went on to say, getting to the meat of the meeting once Olive had been shut down. "We saw nothing out of the ordinary; we came across a number of small creatures, but nothing unusual or dangerous," she recapped, and there was a glimmer of confusion in the group as Althea told of a very normal night to them. "Except for one thing," she added, and within a heartbeat, the four Paragon went from confused to shocked; worried, if not terrified.
"What happened?" Mihovil asked, sounding positively worried; something a little unusual to hear from the happy-go-lucky Paragon of the pack.
"We saw another Paragon a few hours before morning," Althea went on to say, and while that, too, sounded fairly normal, what was to follow did not. "We saw a Paragon covered in blood feasting on the carcass of another."
The words had been crude and to the point, and to a clan that barely experienced any threats of that extent, the news inspired gasps, mainly from Eevi and Mihovil.