Sleepy Fox Hollow Last long enough to go extinct,

When Etienne turned from the water, Anslem had already carefully retreated. 

When he glanced at the water’s edge again, Etienne was gone. 

A dark score of water on the ground betrayed the direction Etienne had gone in. 

Part of Anselm wanted to find something else to do - to stifle the garden growing gently in his heart. But a better part of him wanted to follow — as if by being in Etienne’s orbit, he might somehow find happiness again. 

As Etienne draped across the stone with water trickling around him, Anselm drew close. His gaze was wary, a scowl already on his face. 

Must be nice to sleep all day.