Sun Mote Copse The little cloud who wouldn't and the rainbow who couldn't.

Just like that, they were gone.  Of course they were gone, though, right?  It was always Fig who went... and Fennec who got left behind.  She was too slow, too much of a pain to take care of.  The other woman had said as much too, and maybe dad just decided he'd had enough of it.  Maybe Fig did too.

Fennec knew there were likely other reasons, and potentially something had happened, but at least this one meant they were okay and chose to go.  It was the only justification she could think of; why else would they leave mom?  She didn't talk about it... she didn't really talk, honestly.

But she did trail Towhee, almost obsessively.  Her mom was her last rock in this, and she felt a burgeoning fear that she'd leave too and then Fennec would really be alone.  So while Towhee patrolled, she was followed by a silent tan ghost, pacing carefully between the perceived trees to catch up.