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ITEM (Nothing To Use!)

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ACT (Choosing To Speak!)

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RUN (Nowhere To Go!)

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He put a paw to his chin, deep in thought. A tunnel and cave were essentially the same thing to him. She must have been correct, because the other option was that he had been lied to for his entire life and everything he’d been through had been for nothing. Of course, the suggestion that everyone could have just walked somewhere else instead of staying in that cavern for the rest of their lives was also upsetting, but he would not confront a stranger with that realization now. (Especially when she doesn’t even seem certain.)

Possible or not, the boy’s eyes widened some. It was a stretch to say he didn’t look worried anymore, but he wasn’t on the brink of tears. A shaky breath, the tilt of a scruffy head, yes! An answer he could understand! Ah-huh.. That was almost exactly what happened to him, verbatim! He entered the cave, walked and walked, and now he was here, with Light!

But the question of what to do about this newfound information was.. ever present. Faint smile straightened out and his blank stare returned, squinting as he looked around the area. He still didn’t know where he was, nor did he know what anything was. Southeast now understood what it meant to have a very big problem. Usually, they would have been sorted by now. Such was the life of a child.

The tan wolf resorted to staring at her again. If he could, perhaps, communicate telepathically, that would solve this issue. What did he do now, he wondered? Surely, she knew.