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Randee continued on walking home.

Kimi's eyes widened and her jaw dropped.
"Princess?" asked Kimi, suspicious. She didn't truly care too much as the day has been so brutal, but Kimi certainly didn't want to miss this.

Kimi sighed.
"Uh, another secret then?" asked Kimi, rolling her eyes with a smirk.

Teyha frowned as she walked the village, eyes narrowed. These 'hoofprints'... were those clawmarks on them? She blinked, settling her hoof into one of the prints gingerly and staring. What a strange Soquili... but everything else, the slashing, the wounding... it screamed coyote. What horrible Soquili had bred with a ciyite to create such evil? Was it even possible for such a thing to have occurred?

She knew one thing- if any soquili could have found a way to breed with a coyote in order to create such evil, it would be a kalona. Though she doubted any of them even knew what would have sprung from them. She giggled, imagining the child that would spring from, say, Calamity and a coyote. The image brought tears of mirth to her eyes but she stayed silent, instead choosing to seek more clues.

"Yes Kimi, keep it secret. I dont want anyone knowing about it...not even you." she growled abit about Kanati's big mouth."You know Kimi your mother looked familiar.....where did dhe come from?" Zira asked watching Randee dissappear out of sight.

"Interesting I should like to meet your mother Kimi. What's got her so down anyways?" Zira said sniffing the air abit.

Maeryn laughed, a low, evil laugh that seemed to go hand in hand with her mood. Or perhaps, hoof in hoof. "Oh, please. Make more assumptions. I will certainly enjoy stomping them into the mud like the misshapen things they are." A bit more seriously, she considered his question. "Hmm. Well, thus far no one has come forward to take responsibility for this destruction. My guess would be that there is someone new involved, and perhaps one or two others. If it was someone familiar that led the attack, than they would probably have left behind traceable clues. Soquili, two-leggers... they all have mannerisms, and personal scents." She shrugged, and flicked her tail, surveying the damage. "It stinks of ... canine. Perhaps that is due to the pelt the elder two-legger wears." Dimly, she was aware of Rot's lingering presence, and took it into consideration in her dealings with Calamity.

"Well now, you've certainly put in quite a deal of detective-work on this." He smirked, consciously ignoring her earlier statements. Maeryn, he realized, was quite adamant about raising Cal's ire. It seemed her sharp tongue was a means with which to prove her cunning and strength. But what was she trying to prove?

Calamity put away the thoughts for a more convenient time and merely nodded in understanding, putting the pieces together for himself. "Well then, have the two-leggers gone to the elder yet? Because I see no other trace of any sort of canine here."

He shook out his mane and watched her out of the corner of her eye. "No dog or man did this."

His voice was quiet, and he signed slowly as the little doubtful thoughts crept forward again. "Look at them, Maeryn. The humans are just as dumbfounded...and they live here. If coyotes or wolves attacked their village, someone would have heard. They would already be out on the hunt for the pack responsible."

He turned and eyed a deep, jagged gash in a totem pole beside them. "And no human I've ever encountered is fierce enough to do this. We're dealing with something entired new here, I suppose."

Maeryn was mortally offended that the little lesser (in her mind) mare had all but bumped into her. "Yes... ask me for my forgiveness. Perhaps I will even grant it..." she hissed. At least their skin hadn't come into contact. With a barely concealed shudder, she ignored the timid creature, and concentrated on Calamity's observations. "So you say... but then why does the stench of a canine creature reek from it all? Perhaps it is a new creature, but if so... where is it?"

True, that was her own thought. "You are gifting the humans with more intelligence than they deserve. It is entirely likely that they have been taken for fools. Yes, there is a possibility that it is something new. Something not yet seen. Still, one should not rule out the old."

For that would leave them unguarded against the threat, something that the Kalona was not willing to do. Well, for herself and her herd (her kind even), maybe. She dug a hoof into the earth, thinking. "I think that we deal with a mixture between the new and the old. Something that could attack without being suspected of it." That was also likely. But what was it? "Coyotes... are not pack animals. They work alone." She was thinking of what he had said, of a pack. "Wolves will howl, and make much noise. Coyotes are a bit sneakier than that. Are they not revered for it by the two-leggers?" A useless observation, largely.