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Wolfie watched the commotion around her and it tugged at her heartstrings that she couldnt seem to find the chicklet. With a frown, she decided it might be best to continue the journey. She had a strange feeling that the chick knew exactly what it was doing. Why else would it have lefts its owner and the house.

Wolfie looked over her shoulder at Tal. "Any luck figuring out that map?"

When Hana tumbled down on top of the black pup, she uprooted something as she fell. It laid beside the two pups, it's roots looking odd and strange. The wolves notably stayed clear of it, carefully circling around it to avoid touching it. Clearly this was an unusual plant. Would it be useful to Moosey, by chance?



Meanwhile, as Blade perched in a tree, he found good footing where the branch met the trunk. But as he settled his back against the sturdy trunk and secured his footing on the branch, he dislodged something caught in the crevice where the two parts met. It fell and bonked Tal on the head as she was walking by, musing to herself.



"Yipes!" She leaped backwards in alarm at being pegged on the head by something. She stooped to pick it up, then grinned up at Blade. "I think perhaps you have found what we were looking for, Blade!" She held up a small, smooth round disc made of stone. On it's surface a rune was carved. "We may not have found it quite like Mr. Hill meant us to, but we found it!"

She tossed it back up to Blade, since he had found it, and then dashed off to find Wolfie. "WOLFIE! We found it!" she yelled as she ran. "Blade found what we were looking for!"

((We will be proceeding to the next location soon! Grats to those who found things this round!))

Wolfie sighed happily as the sun came into full effect. The snow was rappidly deteriorating and the mud shrivled into a dry dusty mass. It was wonderous how magical this place always seemed to be. Things were brimming with life all of a sudden.

The birds in the background chirped happily as she turned around to see what Tal and Blade were fussing about.

Tal bounded up to Wolfie, grinning happily. Random pups of her own were chasing after her... she had so many, she was beginning to lose track of who was where when! Most notable was a small black pup with pretty gold butterfly markings that nearly tripped her just as she drew up by her friend.

She caught her balance by grasping Wolfie's shoulder, laughing breathlessly. "We found what the map was looking for! "Find a niche if you look about/Climb to peek and then to shout" was a fold in the bark where a tree's branch met the trunk!" She paused for breath. "Now we just have to find what our next clue should be!"

She took another deep breath and tugged off her backpack. She gently removed the old folded parchment map and opened it up. She tugged Wolfie near to help as they peered at the weird drawings and writing that scrawled across the map.

"Let's see... if we got our first clue where we WERE... that would mean we need to find the next clue where we are NOW." She ran a gentle finger across the surface of the parchment, searching. "Ah, here." She pointed to a specific spot on the map.

"Largest plate you've yet seen/Find your joy amidst the green/Remove grey peas until it's clean!" She blinked at Wolfie. "Green something on a huge plate? With grey peas? Any ideas?" However, before Wolfie did more than thoughtfully open her mouth, Morgana began leaping about them excitedly.

"Momma, Momma, I know where that is! A biiiiiig plate! Very big! And it's green!" She was so excited that she could barely get the words out, with yips and yelps scattered between her short bursts of speech. "A plate, Momma! Come on!"

With that, the pretty female turned and darted down the road. Giving the others a wild, blank look, Talencia turned and ran after her swift moonlit. When she finally caught up with her, they stood on the edge of a large meadow.

It was almost perfectly circular, bordered by the same forest that ran along the road earlier. Even with the melting snow, it was already grown over by thick green grass. A wire fence ran across the middle, splitting it in two, and weeds already flourished around the posts. Whatever hid in the grass was masked by the wild growth spurred by the onset of spring.

"Well... I think we have our plate." Tal said absently. The field was large. This wasn't going to be too easy, she was sure. She fondled Morgana's ears and praised her softly. "Wonderful work, darling. Thank you!"

Wolfie was startled as one of the older moonlits darted between her legs, kicked her off her feet and sent her for a ride. With a yelp she gripped the fur and held on tight. The wolf seemed to have been following the others as a sea of moonlits seemed to move suddenly in the same direction.

Wolfie felt as if she was ranching moonlits with all the wonderful colors and shapes and sizes of them running about her. She giggled as she was thrown to and fro along the path.

"Tal, wait up!" Wolfie stumbled for words as she was bounced over and over again. With a start, the moonlit came to a hault, throwing wolfie into a tumble, landing with her butt in the grass. As the wind had been knocked out of her, she looked about frantically as if to say 'what was going on here?'

Celestia and her moonlits returned just in time to hear the next part of the riddle. She followed the others to the large field while pondering the hints. 'Okay... So the plate is the field, green would obviously be the grass, but grey peas? Do they want us to search through pebbles?'

Celestia gently rubbed her temples to hopefully ward off the incoming headache. She knelt down to Rei and Hisana's eye levels and said, "Hey guys, wanna see if we can find the next clue?" Rei bounced around excitedly while Hisana tilted her head in curiousity. Giggling, Celestia continued, "Okay. Can you try looking around the different stones in the field? Bark loudly if you find anything, 'kay?" With a brief wag of their tails, they disappeared into the thick green grass.

Celestia laid down on a group of boulders and continued to speculate about this clue. 'Plate... green... grey peas...' She suddenly shot up in her seat. 'Wait a minute...' She imagined how this field would look like in an aerial view. With a circular field and grass, it would certainly look like a plate with greens. With boulders. Looking like... "Grey peas!" Celestia softly exclaimed. She clamored off the boulders she was sitting on, and knelt to see if there were any cracks between the boulders. "But wait... They said "remove grey peas until it's clean"... Can these even be moved?"

Peeking into the dark cracks between the stones, Celestia couldn't really tell if anything, such as a small piece of paper was tucked into it. Praying that there weren't any creepy crawlers waiting for her, Celestia used the sensitive pads of her fingers to feel for any items in the crevice.