Broken Boulder Roads go ever ever on

B)

okeanos' small, idyllic world has suddenly gotten much bigger. his family unit's trek from the mountains has been met largely by silence -- not a sulky silence but a sensitive, careful one: he trusts his mamas implicitly and will follow them wherever they go, the weight of whatever drove them away too big for him to understand. he hopes his mamas feel better here and ibby too and his other siblings even if he doesn't talk to them as much usually 'cause they've been pretty quiet.

exploring out and about on his own is not really his m.o. -- in fact all he wants to do is find mamas' dens but he's lost in a strange new territory and there's no adults around what was he doing!!! oh right, he dropped his gelman somewhere and wanted to find it :( okeanos sniffles but does not cry as he crawls along, his wobbly little face catching sight of a silvery blip. it's not ibis or seamus or eleuthera -- for a moment he thinks maybe it's remi, except remi didn't have big ol spots on her like this puppy does. his sniffling stops momentarily as he boofs a "he-lo?" hopeful that maybe this puppy knows where an adult is.