Wolfy's eyes teared slightly, shining and damp, and he turned his head away. "I just... I had a nightmare is all." He scooted away from her, wrapping his arms around his chest like he was trying to protect himself, hide himself from something that he couldn't see. Or, perhaps, keep something inside from getting out. "No, you stay. I'm just... gonna go for a run, or something." He jumped to his feet, still in his pajamas, and darted out the door faster than anyone had a right to be able to move. His mother watched him go, and poked her head into the living room with a questioning expression.
Tango was about to respond, when Wolfy went racing past, down the road and into the woods completely barefoot. She turned to follow him, having to move into a gallop to catch up. He hadn't even bothered opening the gate, leaping it in one smooth movement as he moved into the trees. Not to their secret place, not to the river, but deep into the woods where light rarely touched, and paw prints dotted the muddy earth in abundance.
Maza stood beside Luna, pressing his shoulder against her own, smiling slightly. "They seem happy, eh?" He chuckled, his tail flicking behind him to gaze against her hind leg closest to his own.
Tamera turned her brilliant green gaze toward Zane, expression becoming nervous, but still fairly tame compared to how she had been before. She sat down in the water so that it rippled about her shoulders from her deeper place in the river. She paused her her humming, then switched to a new tune, another that he wouldn't have heard before. It was slow at first, smooth and almost sad, growing in tempo and becoming urgently excited, something akin to happy in it's trilling notes.



