Blacktail Deer Plateau the emerald necklace

I am so jazzed to see how their relationship unfolds. Have I ever mentioned that you have the best toons? Because you do. Somewhere out there, little Xerxes+Rust babies are running around. <33

A day had passed, perhaps two, before Fox left Peregrine's side. It was where she felt most comfortable, but she knew that she could not stay there forever. There was a whole pack of wolves waiting for her, some she had even met before coming here. The girl... Fox could not remember her name, but she did remember that the girl had been a part of Swiftcurrent for a brief interlude. And now she was here. Eventually, Fox would catch up with her, but she still felt too shaky in her position to do anything just yet. There was also Finn, whose name she remembered purely because they had made a big deal about it. He had been a loner then, and she had made his acquaintance just days before Haunter had returned.

Haunter.

The name felt so fitting now, perhaps more than it had when he was alive. He visited her often in dreams, and they had children and grandchildren there. They grew old together, and then they were reborn to live it all over again. Fox mourned for him in private, whenever Perry was taking care of his children or going out to converse with Willow. She mourned for him in her dreams, even though it was often a happier place. The nights that she slept beside Peregrine, she often awoke and smiled, only to realize that it was not Haunter and that she was no longer in Swiftcurrent Creek. Granted, her situation here wasn't terrible. But she was impatient, and it did not yet feel like home.

Fox parted ways with Perry, nipping his shoulder to let him know that he was not to follow her this time. If she was to be his second in command, she would have to stop clinging to his side like a small child. Without consciously doing so, Fox eventually found her way to Lasher, and she paused to regard him with an impish grin. Seeing a familiar face (even vaguely so) caused her tail to sway from side to side as she approached him in good spirits. Observing that he was digging, Fox began digging as well, unknowingly ruining his work because she was a world-class idiot.

P.S. I got rambly, no need to match length.