Break down the Walls

She was weathering this winter miserably. It was her heat season and to make things worse there were snow drifts were making things difficult. She wasn't exactly the biggest fox and it made traversing the snowy wonderland extremely tedious. She leaped through the heaviest of the snow. Her den was now well cloaked in the snow so she had to return to it by memory. She had moved every herb farther back inside the den to keep them dry and warmer than they would of been in their normal nooks of the roots they were made from. The tree atop her den was now bare and thankfully a good landmark for her to navigate with.

She paused as a scent touched her nose. A female with pups and herbs mingling in her scent, but there was a familiar scent to her too. One she had smelled on the todd from before, the one that had been sweet and kind, Dart. She turned and changed direction, trailing after this female. Perhaps she would know where her friend was, or maybe she would want to warm up and speak of herbs. As she found a shallow part of the snow she shook her pelt out and looked ahead. The sight of an ashen older woman caught her. She put on her best smile and trotted to catch up. "Hello there!" she caught up to her shortly after announcing herself and stopped hoping the other woman would.