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Things had been so terribly cold as of late that even her thick winter furs were not entirely equipped for. It was the worst Winter Leta had remembered experiencing, and she could not wait for it to be over. The exhaustion of keeping warm seemed to take its toll one night, but the rest had been so thorough that Leta woke up feeling better than ever. Osiris spoke, and Leta turned to look at him with a sleepy smile.

“Well... we went to bed early,” she answered, a little groggy. Stretching, she said past a huff and a groan, “I feel better than I have in weeks,” but there was a bit of a sleep hangover. Rolling to her side and pawing at him, she said with a laugh, “feeling a little like I overslept, but I think we needed it,” Leta smirked, the imprint of her beau on her side from the length of time he had lain there. And he had the cowlick of a century!

“Let me fix that before your mother has a field day,” she said with a laugh, rising to help him out. And then, “how do you feel? Rested?”
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Nothing? Leta was suddenly concerned as she asked, “tell me what you last remember,” with a soft frown. He asked for her own memory, but Leta was thinking then of @Elke; perhaps she ought to call her? Or maybe it really just was that Osiris had slept really, really well. “I was freezing cold. We tried to find prey to hunt, but came up short. It felt like forever, with the temperatures, and honestly maybe we went further than I even thought,” Leta laughed at that. Time had felt strangely fuzzy, but that Leta blamed exhaustion on. Even when they had fed, the winter chill tuckered her out.

Leta stepped over the massive man (her massive man!), beginning to work on the top of his bedhead. Leta took her time while she thought on things, and said, “I also feel super groggy, but that sometimes happens after I take the best naps. That... had to be top ten. If not number one,” she smiled. But then asked, “hows your head feel?” thinking back to Elke now.
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Hmmm. He really didn't remember, did he? “No, food was pretty scarce. Not just here... everywhere,” she remembered. But they had managed to get the turkey; evidence of it was the feathers she had plucked to make a cozier sleeping space that were in the corner of their den. She began to work on his head and said to his question, “it's good, just... still a little groggy too,” she said with a smile.

Once she was satisfied with her work she stepped away from him and nodded. And then she looked outside and said, “feels so nice out today at least. Maybe that whole... frozen winter famine bit is done,” she hoped aloud. “Want to go see if we can find any new prey trails?” She was suddenly itching to move.
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Leta nodded, thinking that best. She had no idea what they’d do without the woman, and hoped they’d never have to. Leta said, “I’ll look for West,” in answer, given his equal importance in her own life. And she and West could look for any others that might be here, and account for who wasn’t. That felt helpful, at least. 

She nosed him gently, and then said, “I’ll see you after, ‘kay?” with a wave of her tail before setting off herself.
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