Blackfeather Woods 'Cause out of sight is out of mind

I would have far too much fun with that XD

He moved closer and she took the help gratefully but without any verbal or visual acknowledgement. She was struck, suddenly, with thoughts of her brother, and for a moment she wondered where he was. Still with the Frosthawks?

She didn't actually know, immediately, what the obvious was that Bronco referred to. Funnily, other wolves weren't something Fennec had even considered as an option on the question, but she let it go without asking for clarification. Something like that. She answered as she used his path to skirt something that, apparently, lay to her right. Likely a tree. She smiled. I haven't thought that much about it, but maybe someplace that isn't too open. I always felt like the Caldera was a little too empty.

She couldn't entirely picture what he meant when he said fortress, but she got the gist of it. Her own preference came from a few places. For one - it was always nice to be able to hide herself away if she needed to. Another reason was the ability to hear others coming at any given time, and to feel the comforting presence of something other than open air around her. Despite the strangeness of this place, she still preferred it to the open meadow they'd already passed through.

There was a place a while back. It was definitely a fortress, but it was hard to navigate. And definitely not safe. She smirked remembering, but skipped the part where she could have mentioned it was where she'd disappeared to for a while. Maybe he'd figure that out himself. We'd probably want a happy medium on that. The place was cool but definitely sucked too. She'd know - she'd been stuck there long enough before Meerkat happened upon her.

Maybe if it was just the two of them she'd feel differently, but anyplace they found, she had Killdeer to consider. Fennec didn't make a habit of looking ahead in general, but it was impossible for her thoughts to not touch on post-winter and what the next year might bring as well.