Sleepy Fox Hollow damn the dark, damn the light

That's no way to live. No, it wasn't. "That's why things changed. We all split up and stuff, because we couldn't agree on anything or maybe... some of them just wanted to leave." Thinking of Santiago hurt, in ways he couldn't quite put into words. His first love, first heartbreak. Perhaps his only. 

A smile stretched on his maw when Cenric stated he wanted to meet Valour. "Yeah, he's great! I think we're the same age, maybe?" he wondered aloud. Valour was young, too. It really hadn't been fair, what happened to all of them. 

Clarence got to his feet after the other man, eager to follow. That was all he'd done. Follow, follow, follow. "Me, too," he agreed, setting off at at trot toward the center of the valley. "Maybe there's something to drink over here."

Sure enough, standing off toward the middle of the valley was a pool of water. Whether it had always been there or was something created by the ceaseless rain last month, Clarence didn't know. Nevertheless, the boy lowered his head and began to drink his fill of the cool water.