Cedar Sweep we’ll find one another in that big somewhere out there

Uh-- Auburn made a small sound in the back of her throat at his words, and watched helplessly as he began to walk away again. Surely he was too young to go off by himself (not to mention that there was clearly something wrong with him). She opened her mouth, closed it, opened it again, then sat down, her brow furrowed, and watched him go. Demanding that he go back home right now would probably just result in a fight, or he'd laugh at her. No. She wait until he was farther away, and then call for Meerkat and let her know that her son had wandered off on his own. It was something she wished her own parents would've cared about, though she knew they didn't: the fact that she'd run away from home as a yearling. But she didn't want to think about them. Not ever again.

[End? We can assume that Auburn told Meerkat off-screen, or have a new thread about it, but she would definitely tell someone.]