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The reindeer’s antlers were velvety soft and growing daily bit by bit.  His cream-colored coat is thick and great protection from cold but this storm is one even he has no desire to be out in.  Beru had found them this little hide-away  Lowering his head the reindeer shook his coat, casting off the snow that had doggedly clung to him in the storm.

His own gaze went to the wall and he moved in closer, looking from one image to another.  “Are those meant to be like me?” It was funny, the streaks of color were amazingly in the shape that could represent deer of one type or another.  The human images made no sense to him, a pattern of something without reason.  Some type of predator with teeth was running in another spot. “who made these Mrs.B?”  It had to be made.  Sure, there were cracks and markings on rock walls but these weren’t like that, too specific, too different on the color patterns.

Watching Mrs.B lay down and then Oscar moving towards her, the reindeer took a last curious look at the drawings before moving to the duo.  Snow was perfectly normal but it was far enough out of true winter that this storm was catching him without Kyren’s extra fuzzy coat.  Letting out a slow sigh he moved to hunker down next to Beru and Oscar.

 Kyren lay with his legs underneath him, head tilted so that it leaned up against Beru’s side. The stone floor would feel cold to his head after all but with Beru’s warm wooly frame he could stay perfectly warm.  “It is an odd time for a storm like this,” Kyren agreed and then added on, “what we’ll find tomorrow? Snow, a lotta snow.”  One way or another Kyren would go out in it tomorrow morning.  He had no intention to go a day without food just because of a ‘little’ snow.  

Glancing from Beru over to Oscar, Kyren tilted his head so that a velvety antler touches Oscar for a light poke, “Smile more.”  It was a mild tease that wasn’t so much about humor as just trying to distract Oscar from his own dismal thoughts.  


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