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ITEM (Nothing To Use!)

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ACT (No Enemy Present!)

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RUN (Nowhere to Go!)

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They repeated his statement about death and his lip stiffened again. Southeast didn’t know quite why it made him feel so bad to think about when they had been passing away the entire time they were locked in the caves- that was the point- but he had only recently met a few others whose responses told him that was not a normal thing here. The boy hoped nobody would end up sealed off again.

And then. She broke the news to him. There was a good chance he was still going the wrong way. Eyes widened, he stumbled back onto his hindqaurters. Floored by this information. Oh. Was more or less all he managed to say, the sudden weight of his mistake threatening to pull him down. It felt so much brighter out here than before. Uh-uhm, Moving on. My.. Mamá? (Mom) Or- Hermana.. (Sister) I don’t know what She was. She took care of me in the cave. If the young wolf did know, he hardly thought it would make a difference.

Looking up at her with a twinge of disappointment and honestly, worry, his eyes flicked over to the hill where the beast had run off to. Imagine something bigger and more mean-er and faster chasing him? No! He would not imagine that at all! She said- said that-KHHF-I would be safe there and the Daemons would not get me. She named me after it. Southeast to the Path of Eternity. Pausing thoughtfully, his expression darkened. Or was it.. of the Path to Eternity..? The boy did not recall. Oh, dear..

Learning, now, that he had no particular idea of where he was headed, he seemed backed into a corner. He liked corners to hide in, but this was a bad corner. It seemed just a little irresponsible of himself to keep on keeping on at this pace. Did Eternity even exist here? It was a different place.. What if he never found it?

The thought scared him. Okay. At least until I know that.. What did they call it? Haaaairr? Is gone. Watching Juniper’s expression for confirmation on his enunciation, he seemed resigned to the fact that he had few other options. Not now.