Hideaway Strath I still press your letters to my lips.

@Towhee and @Phox   :)

For how long had he wandered? How long since Elysium had crumbled? Were his mothers still alive, trailing elsewhere - unscathed - with Sunny and the others? And his brothers? He hoped so. With every fibre of his being, he hoped.

While his family were safe and warm in the comfort if his mind, Sundance was irrevocably lost. He was exhausted, starving, filthy, and entirely alone.

Until he happened across fresh territory markers, the scent of his own kind. The boy felt his body sag then, let it crumble to the ground below him. He did not know if this was the result of relief or if he'd finally succumbed to exhaustion, but he went down willingly.