Sun Mote Copse There's no peace in quiet

Sure.  Her stomach was growling, and that meant she'd let him take the lead.  Fennec had never been afraid to take offered help, or even ask when it was necessary.  She just preferred to try and fail on her own first, and she absolutely hated when others assumed she needed it.  Where the line lay on assuming vs offering... that was completely arbitrary.  More often than not, it depended on her mood first and the wolf second.

She let a bit of silence fall.  It wasn't awkward, there was nothing pointed behind it, but there was a lot unsaid.  She'd been feeling a lot of different things since Penn left and none of them were things she wanted to particularly discuss with her brother.

She'd thought she found independence, going with him.  But when he left, that door had slammed shut in her face, and it turned out relying on another wolf completely wasnt independence any more than relying on her family was.  It was just a new form of needing, one that came with less ties, but less dependability too.  Maybe Penn had wanted to split sooner, even, and just... hadn't because he knew she needed him there.

At that unpleasant thought, Fennec shifted gears abruptly.  Why'd you really go to Frosthawks?  If she didn't want to dig into her own shit, best bet was to nudge at his.  Maybe it was as simple as wanting to train, but maybe not.