Margaret stopped twenty feet away, her hands trembling slightly around the grain bucket.
“Did he ever handle Pele?”
Targeted aggression. Female human. Specific timing. Margaret stopped twenty feet away, her hands trembling
Were. The past tense hung between them like a wire. Lena spent the next three hours observing. She watched Pele interact with the other llamas—normal social grooming, no signs of illness or pain. She checked the pasture for toxic plants, the water trough for cleanliness, the fence line for anything that might have startled the herd. Nothing. Margaret stopped twenty feet away
She didn’t just see a limping dog or a goat that wouldn’t eat. She saw the story behind the symptom. the water trough for cleanliness
“Margaret took over the morning feed.”