Fox's Glade 囲む

Pologies on the wait! Tryin to figure this lil beast out LOL

The quakes remind him of a home he’d forgotten about.

Visions of towering trees—titans, in their own right—across a mountain range. The forest teeming with life, around every corner. Each a greater opponent than the next; Naoki unable to best a tree, or a boulder in his younger months despite his best efforts to thwart every opponent, living or otherwise.

Nature, however, tends to always win against itself. Where the trees and boulders might have been impossible to him, they weren’t to tremors. They came, and they conquered. Mountainside retreat destroyed in one sunny afternoon like it was a walk in the park.

Maybe that’s why he’s here; the memories.

Naoki vibrates with energy. It is as if sparks are igniting his feet where they touch the ground beneath him, coursing upwards and leaving a tingling sensation in his spine. Fur standing on end, muscles bunched ready to spring—an arrow ready to launch.

He kicks up, eyes narrowing on the only scraps of food that he’s seen for miles and miles—a distressed, skinny little hare that looks sick. His stomach growls in appreciation, but the hunt is far from over. Chasing it from the thicket and out towards a stream, he brandishes his fangs, ready to catch at a moment’s notice.

The hare, however, ends up heading straight towards what Nao sees as a fox at first glance.