Lost Creek Hollow wish i could prove i love you.

He heard her call out, lost midst the forest that enveloped them. It gave him pause as he scanned around him, though he did not put much detail into the search. Instead a sly smile peeled across his muzzle in an instant as he heard her feet carry through the leaf litter of the late autumn. She was close, yet far enough away that the cover of the woodland hid her from his view.

Mordecai changed paths, stepping through the underbrush effortlessly in what he felt was pursuit of her. The path was so winding and varied through this particular expanse of woodland that he didn't know whether or not he would ultimately find her. Perhaps she would find him, already behind him and having located him. He checked behind him, and found nothing.

He barked again, this time curious and questioning of where she was hiding.