Silvertip Mountain Waiting For Spring

"Advice to live by" he agreed. Advice he had been living his entire life. Through all the bad in the grey male's life, he always pushed on. Never letting the downs in life pull him under the earth, where he would lay forever if he let them do so.

Her question took some thought to answer. By far it was one of the best he had lived through. He nodded in reply. "One of the best I've had!" He grinned, wagging in excitement. No deaths during this winter of anyone he knew. Well, as far as he knew. "And I've seen some...pretty bad winters" he added, a sad expression taking over his previous smile, his ears wilting and his tail drooping. That was true. With his first winter being the end of his family.