Sleepy Fox Hollow brimming and broken and somehow

setting: early sunrise, set about 40 mins or whatever after this. for @Mahler whenever u have time

soon, her mother would be well enough to travel. 
soon, they would leave this place. 

perturbed by her anxiety and reluctance, the girl excused herself from breakfast.

in the still solemnity of first light, with the muted hollow stretching away to nothing and the spectral mountains slumbering against the sky, phaedra slippered east, draped in the soft glow of zodiacal light. 

a sigh held in her shoulders, the girl came to a standstill at a treeline that overlooked some meadow limned in daybreak colors, on which a small herd of blacktail deer grazed. she sat and swept her tail about her paws, feeling homesick for a place she wasn’t sure even existed. 

she wondered if that feeling had sat in thade’s stomach too.

conscious of a heaviness in her head, she let it down. clutching hope that her brother had someplace, that he'd found peace -- then moored himself sturdily to it.

her heart recounts the loss. 
twin fawns weave through their mother’s legs.