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Yeah, we fancy like Applebee’s on a date night. - Towhee - May 05, 2025
A slightly melancholy Towhee set out again, cold rain pattering her back as she headed north. They could still use another recruit, though she made a beeline for Moonglow this time. She made it as far as the glen before night fell, deciding to camp there and finish the last leg of her trip in the morning.
She woke up to a soundly sleeping Bushtit curled up beside her. Towhee started, then pounced on him. She could only imagine how loudly her son squawked as she tackle-hugged him awake. He pretended to put up a fight, though he quickly went boneless and let his mother squish him.
They sprawled there for a while, catching up, and Towhee couldn’t stop marveling. Bushtit had filled out a lot since she’d last seen him. Something else had changed too, something much subtler. She couldn’t put a finger on it and when she asked—poked and prodded obnoxiously, even—he only laughed and deflected, a mischievous light in his dark eyes.
It was late morning by the time she stood, stretched and said she had to get to Moonglow. Towhee invited Bushtit to come with her, though he said he was thinking of heading on to the caldera instead; he’d wait for her there. She nodded, thrust her snoot in his ear to tickle him, then departed for the nearby spine.
It wasn’t easy to push her son from her mind, though she tried to focus as she halted at the borders. Towhee sensed something, though she couldn’t say what or even guess at the nature of it. Frowning thoughtfully, she called to @Rodyn and/or anybody else in earshot who could spare a few moments.
RE: Yeah, we fancy like Applebee’s on a date night. - Rodyn - May 05, 2025
Rodyn was frankly exhausted. The last year had taken so much from him. He couldn't even breathe anymore without a little pain. And he was not getting any younger. Oh he was still in his prime, but he did notice some wounds took longer to heal. IF he twisted a footpaw when running after a deer, rather than take a day or two and rest it, he usually had to take three or four. IT was not something he liked to think about.
He heard Towhee's call and for the first time he entertained the thought of not answering it. Not because he did not wish to see his friend. Or take any comfort he knew she would give. Frankly he didn't want to voice that both the patriarch and the matriarch of moonglow was gone. That their son and fresh daughter in law would take the mantle. He didn't wish to share such a terrible grief, when it was still tearing him apart. But he turne towards the sound and made it there in a decent time frame.
Hiya Towhee.
RE: Yeah, we fancy like Applebee’s on a date night. - Towhee - May 05, 2025
He came, the sight of his familiar face like warm hands cupping her heart. It had been heavy since learning about Rue’s demise, though it felt a little lighter when Rodyn came toward her. But only for a matter of seconds. His expression didn’t match the lighthearted way he greeted her. Something was amiss. But what?
What happened,she said, voice even flatter than usual.
It wasn’t a question, though her orange eyes were full of them as they roved back and forth across his familiar face. He looked like the poster child for emotional fatigue. Towhee sucked in a breath, bracing herself for whatever horrible news he carried on his back, the burden of it clearly visible.
RE: Yeah, we fancy like Applebee’s on a date night. - Rodyn - May 06, 2025
It was good to see Towhee. But Rodyn felt bittersweet happiness. It was not her fault though.
He frowned and bent his head. He met her gaze. Shoulders twisting forward as if an invisible weight held him down.
Kukutux and Aiolos have gone to the dancing lights. They stepped into the sea and didn't come back out.
His voice cracked on their names.
He reached forward to grab if she should be struck with grief. Or maybe for his own comfort he wasn't sure. But he didn't know what to do or say.
RE: Yeah, we fancy like Applebee’s on a date night. - Arrluk - May 06, 2025
As Arrluk moved to arrived to the call, his ears twitched to the already budding conversation. Rodyn's words heavy in the young wolf's heart.
As he broke the scattered treelines along the foothills, he looks to Towhee, lowering his head in silent grievance. Quiet and keeping back as another was forced to take in the crushing news.
The weight of their deaths extended far beyond Moonglow. Far even beyond the Moon villages. Arrluk remained uncertain of the future without them.
RE: Yeah, we fancy like Applebee’s on a date night. - Towhee - May 06, 2025
It took several seconds for Rodyn’s words to compute. By the time she realized what he meant, he was grabbing for her. Towhee remained very still, save for the single foreleg that wound around his ribs. This happened on autopilot, as she stared unseeingly over his—slightly shaking?—shoulder.
She only snapped out of it when someone stepped into view nearer the tree line, her heart stuttering when she momentarily mistook him for Orca. His name didn’t come to her just now, but she remembered her granddaughter’s lookalike. Towhee didn’t have it in her to acknowledge him.
Instead, she slipped out of Rodyn’s grasp, the foreleg that had held him now sliding up to his shoulder as she silently demanded eye contact. When she looked into his face, she saw the grief and thought about the look on Kukutux’s sunken face when she’d seen her just a few weeks ago. The very last time.
They…Towhee began when she found her voice, her halting words a good indication that she was still processing.
Deliberately…?
RE: Yeah, we fancy like Applebee’s on a date night. - Rodyn - May 09, 2025
He knew this wouldbe a shook. He did not know how good of friends they were. But there was a mutual respect there at least. Between towhee and kukutux
A soft little shrug.
We are unsure. But they are gone. Their scents end at the ocean line and no further.
Rodyn sighed and rubbed a paw along the dirt.
Arrluk and Ajei lead in their stead.
RE: Yeah, we fancy like Applebee’s on a date night. - Arrluk - May 18, 2025
There were things which Arrluk could have said to Towhee to help explain the situation. How the famous red fox fur of her mother's had been on the sands. Remnants of green along the sands there. Gifts laid at Samani's grave. Their den having been completely tidied from top to bottom, fresh meat hanging, cache filled...
Arrluk takes a deep breath, being pulled out of these lasting memories. His head lifting and meeting Towhee's features once more, filled with a shock and confusion for Rodyn to be left to explain. The orca man took a few steps forward.
You are more then welcome to come within. There is plenty of room at the ulaqs and food.
RE: Yeah, we fancy like Applebee’s on a date night. - Towhee - May 19, 2025
What the fuck? were the only three words Towhee could think, as Rodyn explained their disappearance into the ocean. What the fuck? she thought again when Orca’s lookalike stepped forward, inviting her to partake in food and fellowship. It took her a few beats to realize he and Arrluk were one and the same; he was the new Alpha here. What the fuck?
She was appalled. She knew Kukutux had been suffering but Towhee never once would’ve believed her capable of such a thing. And she’d taken her mate with her too, doubling the loss for those left behind. It was cowardly and selfish. And she didn’t understand, because that didn’t fit her image of “moon woman” at all.
A breath shuddered through her as the stricken Towhee finally caught Arrluk’s eye. Was he angry? Towhee had never known her parents—they’d died before she was born, really—and sometimes she’d felt angry with them anyway. She couldn’t begin to imagine what an emotional minefield he was navigating now, knowing his parents had chosen each other and the easy way out, rather than grow old here with him and die of natural causes.
She swallowed thickly, finally remembering to nod at the poor man. Towhee didn’t say anything. It wasn’t that she couldn’t speak, just that she was afraid of what terrible things might come out of her mouth if she did. Neither Arrluk nor Rodyn deserved to hear those sorts of things right now.
RE: Yeah, we fancy like Applebee’s on a date night. - Arrluk - June 03, 2025
It was silence which would be left to follow. A silence which had lingered in Moonglow for some time now. With Callyope having gone missing, with Vaire falling into illness yet again... A silence which Arrluk did not know if the pack would escape from, now that Sunman and Moonwoman were no longer alive, as the spirit and heart of the Moon tribes.
Arrluk wondered who might fall next and remained quiet as he lead Towhee further into the mountain oasis of their village.