Hushed Willows the dragonfly it ran away.

Harlyn confirmed what Stark knew and what no doubt Mordecai knew but children were rarely so logical. Some adults weren't either - fully falling back to whimsy as if they were still children. It made sense, of course, and Stark could only offer a small but sad smile to the woman. "Maybe he's got some hope things are better now?" Stark offered quietly. "Or maybe he found someone to take him in for a bit. That was his hope anyways. Maybe someone would have done the honorable thing and taken the puppy in and protected him. 

"It's different for everyone, I wouldn't return to where I was born for anything. Maybe Pippin has some memory there he's latched onto." Stark tried to offer something more gentle to her, although he wasn't sure it would do anything. Harlyn knew those lands in ways that Stark never would after all. "Mordecai only told me a little about the Hollow and why you guys left." It didn't sound like there had been any choice at all for them.