Safe And Sound

Outlaw looks very impressed about the lantern concept, “How do they work? The lanterns that is?" After all he had waited to ask about the lanterns until after she was done talking about hot springs.  One had to be sharp to keep up with his questions. “Do you have a sun catcher that collects the light and beams it onto sticks?” The ‘suncatcher’ was just glass they had back home that was the right type to help start fires from light.  With no known name for it, the dogs had labeled it ‘sun catcher.’ “I’d love to visit, I want to see the lanterns and the hot springs.”

Outlaw nodded understandingly about mysteries, “Sure, I get that.  It’s like some of the stuff from home.  The stuff doesn’t grow, and we don’t know how to make them but there is the stuff that’s just there.  The cave itself is apparently different than anything the wolves who came to visit have seen!  So, I guess our island is maybe magical too.  It just doesn’t glow all pretty like this place.” Yup, happily prattling on assuming, of course, she would want to know all these things

Buried meant digging, but where to dig? Outlaw looked at the ground below him with a perplexed look.  “It would take forever to dig everything up.  I guess we have to look for stuff that looks special somehow.” Outlaw started walking, slowly looking around with a scrunched up thoughtful look, “I wonder what special thing marks treasure? Extra bright glowing things? Or darker to hide the glowing treasure, if the treasure glows? I wonder what the super-secret treasure is?  If whoever left it here is use to glowing then maybe it would be something that doesn’t glow?” Outlaw rattles off these random thoughts as he moves along looking thoughtfully.  Finding a spot where the glowing seemed dim he went and started digging, “I bet its somewhere that glows less!” The spot likely had a few dead plants or maybe just moss that had dimmed the glow of that spot, but of course to Outlaw it was ‘something special.’ “I wonder how deep its buried! We might have to make a lot of holes!  What do you think Meadow? Any better ideas?”