Moonspear no rest for the parents

It wasn't hard to drift to sleep, knowing that his girls might drop by and wake him up violently at any moment now. Charon was asleep before he knew it, unaware of his friend's appearance in the distance. His toes twitched to match his shallow dreams of the children that Potema might be carrying -- unaware that reality was so far from his truth. He frowned as the dream passed onto a replay of the scene where his daughter had nearly been killed by a cougar, and his friend had perished in the crossfire while saving his daughter.

Then he awoke with a start, jumping to his feet with a startled woof -- yet unaware of his friend's presence as he stared around wild-eyed and shaking.