Redhawk Caldera Circus minimus.

It would have been hard for anyone to live up to what she felt she needed. Fennec had done the fennec thing - she'd run headlong into taking her feelings out on less productive spaces and given no sign that anyone needed to intervene otherwise. It wasn't rational to want more, or fair, but the past few months had ended up as too much and at the end of it all, she just wanted her mom. Pretty crap timing, since the situation ended with Towhee needing space from her.

She didn't move as Towhee closed in and gave her a hug. At first she barely responded, but after a moment, she melted into it and leaned in. Fuck, she'd needed this... so badly that she felt herself tearing up. She could get all the hugs she wanted from Killdeer, and she adored them, but it wasn't the same as this.

I'm really glad you're back. Finally she said it, her voice a tidge tight with emotion that Towhee might at least feel, even if she couldn't hear it.