Whitebark Stream They got my blood up in their veins

Backdated to the day after joining. Sorry for the angst. He'll get better <3

  He had looked but @Minnow had ran so quick that he gave up resolving to find her later. The revelation of the loss of his sons gave him a night of tossing and turning, choking out their names every time he slipped too close to a dream as flashes of their faces passed by his eyes almost as real in those seconds as ghosts each time causing emotional agony to erupt. It had taken everything he had to keep from bursting into tears, his breathing quick and ragged as he clamped his teeth so tightly they hurt. 

It felt as if he'd spent the night being poked in the heart by a sharp stick. Stab after stab reminding him what a failure he was. Just as the sun broke the horizon he jumped to his paws and burst into a run, aiming to cover as much as he could of their borders in one go to drive away the tears, occasionally pausing to mark. At one spot he froze, a twig snapping in the distance and a familiar scents blowing on the breeze.