Tuft, Kipper, Niko and Olay! had been sniffing the cliff area for hours. Still no sign of rose, yet here, still, the scent ended.
Niko got frustrated, and started down the coast, thinking to get at the cliffs from below. Olay! gave up her attempts to scale the nasty cliffs and followed Niko.
A scent wafted up to them both, and Niko started yowling and Olay! started yipping, to get the others to follow them. Down at the waters edge lay something that... well, it smelled like rose. But it looked... odd. And bloody. Kipper started barking madly at it, so Tuft had to keep him under control.
It was rose. Hurt and... changed somehow, it was still her. Olay! ran around and gathered some loose branches and Niko tied them together with some of her favotire string. Setting Kipper down with strict instructions to pull the makeshift stretcher (thus keeping his mouth shut) the troupe dragged rose back towards her home only a few miles away.
They stopped at the gate, none of them quite sure how to unfasten it, and instead, Olay! went scampering up over the gate to go get rose some help. Her father was supposed to be here, from what the animals understood. He would help.
To Be Continued (when L. doesn't feel so bad (yes, that is me)
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