Porcupine Ridge simmer down boy

How could he have not heard it? The thing had been so loud, and terrifying... hadn't it? Rue lifted her gaze reluctantly to answer the boy's question. It felt like their roles were reversed, with him playing the part of the reassuring adult and her the child afraid of monsters. She swallowed. "Up there," she said, gesturing with her muzzle in the direction from which (unbeknownst to her) the boy had just come. "I.. heard voices up there, too.." she admitted, voice even smaller, feeling like she was only succeeding in sounding crazier and crazier.