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Her vigil was ordinarily uneventful. With Cyrus temporarily too injured to patrol, it was up to Moonbow to keep an eye in the sky for her Clan. Once again, she mused about the oddity of living as the only actual bird in a Clan called HawkClan, but she supposed that she should be glad that there weren't any pushy species around. After all, crows and jays could be downright mean, swarming solitary predators who strayed too close to their nesting grounds. Besides, it made for easy hunting when she was the only raptor in the sky.
Ordinarily, snowy owls could be found flying quite close to the ground. The air tended to be warmer there, and prey tended to stay down there as well, but she had to admit that there was no match for the gorgeous view of the territory from up here.
From the partially ruined castle to the gray-scale cliffs, the hissing and rolling waves of the sea to the rolling hills of the forest, there was no territory more beautiful that their own. Flapping her white wings to increase her altitude, Moonbow scanned the ground far below, grateful for once that her yellow eyes could see at distance so clearly. She might have difficulty recognizing her Clanmates' faces up close, but at least there was little that could escape her gaze when she was airborne.
A discolored column of smoke was her first clue that something was wrong at the river. The natural forest fires that plagued the inland were almost never found here at the coast, and this smoke smelled all wrong for a natural fire. The fumes stung her eyes, and she closed her second eyelid to shield herself from it. Adjusting the angle of her wings, she swerved down to investigate what was going on beneath the cover of trees.
What she found was horrifying to say the least. Two-leg monsters were chewing up the trees one at a time, fed by yellow-pawed two-legs. She landed silently in the higher branches of a tree to observe more closely, but it looked a lot like the two-legs were trying to create logs by feeding their monster, and the noise made her sensitive earholes ache. The river itself was covered by some strange flat devices that were allowing the creatures to creep back and forth over it.
Sidling along the branch, the snowy owl looked more closely at the small clearing that was being formed as the trees were cleared out. The stumps of the logs looked bald without their mighty trunks and coverings of leaves, and Moonbow could see the remains of what had once been a centuries-old pine grove piling up in geometric stacks. Worst of all, the two-legs barely seemed to notice how ugly the clearing was becoming.
Moonbow froze as she was spotted by one of the two-legs, and she stared him down for a few moments before heaving herself back into the air and wheeling around to fly as quickly as she could back to the castle. HawkClan needed to be warned.
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[Hr][Hr][Center][size=6pt][font=georgia]female - snowy owl - knight - [abbr=hard difficulty - no kill, ask for injury or capture]battle tags[/abbr] - powers
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