Verdigris Ravine Apparition

he was unused to sharing his sadness with any others, let alone a female.

but there was no harm if she did not understand what he said.

zoug hung his head, and then he spoke. her usual attentiveness to his paws might show the shy one he was speaking, but to any other they were nothing more than a shift in posture or a rolling of one's arm.

"i wish i had the way to tell you of clan. to tell the entire tribe. and i wish that i could tell you about the ones who were lost. i want a cave for those who are tribe. it is the way to be safe from the Others."

formal, silent movements, punctuated here and there with the low noises that candle might now recognize as zoug's way of speaking.