Deepwood Weald older than the trees

For @Minnow

Dutch had left them in a wide clearing, rushing off to find his wife. Valiant was understanding of this urge, feeling it himself rather acutely. He would be running back to Moonglow as soon as he saw Minnow settled. His heart was divided on the matter, but not nearly enough to keep him away from Vaire.

"It's peaceful," he said, stepping into a shaft of sunlight. Beyond the clearing, fog eddied and swirled between the trees, cool and inviting and just a little bit sinister. But in the clearing, sunlight dappled the deep, green grass. He paced toward a knot of fallen trees. He tested a few different crevices before he found one that he could wiggle his shoulders into. "How 'bout here?" he asked his sister, scraping his claws across the mossy earth. It would be easy enough to dig out, albeit not in an afternoon. Dutch would have to take over when he left.