Redsand Canyon prehendo

She’d been waiting.

She knew how this would end and she’d repeated it, over and over and over again, until any hope that might crush her was ground into dust beneath the weight of reality. It wasn’t hard for her to understand that whatever he might come back and offer… Fennec would not be getting the thing she truly wanted.

She caught his scent early and stopped to gather herself, knowing she was going to need every ounce of her self control to not turn this into a scene. She was so angry over all of it, but it didn’t matter how angry she got - no accusations she threw would fix this.

She walked towards their den with the resigned air of a woman who was used to bad news. She would allow him to speak first, despite the assumptions she’d already drawn.