Hideaway Strath My heart keeps bleeding, I need you now.

Soon, there was movement at his back, but Sundance didnt turn toward the girl who infiltrated his safe place. The muscles in his shoulders tightened, tensed in anticipation of another reaching out to touch him, but nothing came.

Only a voice, painfully familiar.

The young Shakti exhaled in a soft whine. Hnow could life be so cruel, to take everything from him only to torment him with the memory of a time when he felt such unbridled joy?

Eyelids fluttered open and he shifted, rolling just enough to tilt his head back and look upon the upside-down face of Dorea Fearghal. Powder blue eyes blinked once, twice, three times, and his heart rose up to take residence in his esophagus. "Y-you...?" Sundance flopped, hosted himself up onto his elbows, and fixed the bi-coloured cub with a disbelieving stare. "Dorea!?"

Cue rapid, hopeful tail wag here.