Cedar Sweep Skeletons in the closet.

She couldn't see anything, but her strained attention to hearing everything around them was punctuated by Towhee's increasing panic.

It was awful.

The longer they looked for their former packmates, the quieter Fennec got.  It was likely Towhee wouldn't notice, but she stopped calling and simply listened.  But she couldn't hear anyone.

They're gone. she said, quietly, and she felt her stomach drop.  She'd been so excited to see Fig and dad again.  Now she felt shattered and numb and a little like nothing at all.  She forgot that Towhee wouldn't hear her.  She was talking more to herself anyway.

fine with this ending it for me

Fenn is blind, and as she's older, will take all of her character insight from tone.  If you are ever uncomfortable with an assumption she makes, please let me know!