Sleepy Fox Hollow Looks like they're wanting out.

It broke Anselm's heart to see his father leave after the trail of his mother. He imagined as the dawn's golden light gave way to a crisp autumn sky, that his home had grown a little colder.

But Anselm could not leave. @Emmerich was out there, and the day he came back to the Hollow and saw his parents and brother gone would break him. Of this Anselm knew - so he vowed to stay behind, and wait.

He dreamed of the day he walked down a green path towards the face of his father; the watchful eye of his mother. He kissed @Ilse, and laughed --

but that was a dream, and dreams had a way of fading with the waking light and leaving your stomach knot and ice to sink its way into your heart. Anselm knew better than to waste his life on dreams.

He was practical.

Strong.

His day and hour would come, someday.

For now he sprawled across the same rock he'd seen @Etienne sleep upon so many times, slants of sunlight warming the back of his fur as autumn's chill slowly crept in.