Redhawk Caldera When she sleeps there is a fever dream

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Phox confusion made Bronco regret pitching such a fuss- but it had been a knee-jerk reaction, really. He did not want to see another cave; he'd tried, and he'd tried with the most Bronco-friendly cave he could find- the one he and Meerkat had shared, happily, on Moonspear...But he couldn't even step inside without having a panic attack. He wasn't even interested in giving it a second try here- not if there was a chance he'd have another panic attack. He certainly didn't want to feel that again, and he didn't want to go through that in front of Phox. Thus far, this was his little secret- something that only he knew, and something he assumed Fennec might've known as well though...He figured, given the fact that she hadn't bothered to come check him out after his first panic attack, that she simply didn't care.

She'd mentioned the cave-in to her dad, but when he mentioned nothing else, Bronco felt disappointed, and a little bit angry as well. “Is that all she told you?” He asked. Then again, it wasn't like he was coming here to talk to his own mother about what he'd gone through, so he shouldn't have expected that Fennec would have gone running back to tell her Dad all about it, either. “When was she here?” He asked. He hadn't crossed her path- but then again, he'd not taken the most direct route either, having caught the news from Meerkat that Nellie might be in the area. He'd wandered a little bit, hoping that he might catch her scent- and hadn't picked up a trace of Fennec's trail at all.

Regardless, he didn't want to answer much more of Phox's questions until he had his own answered, so he could gauge how much the Regent already knew about Fennec's den's cave-in.