winding roads that lead to home

Crux couldn't help the feeling of guilt upon seeing his sister spinning around to snarl at him, had their older brother done this to her? Anger flared in his stomach, he'd yet to be subjected to his brother's torment and he didn't know just how brutal he could be outside of the stories his sisters had told. But Crux pushed those feelings down as Vanta calmed and explained what she was doing. He cocked his head to the side and he padded forward towards the fork in the caves and peered down each one, his nose twitching as he tried to pick out any specific scents but the mildewy scents of these unused caves were over-powering.

He couldn't hear any tiny paws but he could feel something. The path on the right had a slight breeze, very slight and he noticed it only because he'd been spending so much time learning how to navigate some of the winding cave paths, there was a hole in the rock somewhere down this path. Maybe a mouse would be inclined to pick the path that would let it escape to the outside where it could more easily hide in the grasses? "I don't know which one it went down but there's an opening somewhere down this path." Crux said, gesturing with his muzzle, his voice softer now that he knew his sister was stalking something. "Maybe it wants to try and get out of the cave?" He didn't even know if the hole would be accessible to the mouse, it could be a hole in the roof like here. "Worst case we can look in both caves, I can come with you to make sure you don't get lost." He hadn't been here before of course but he was pretty confident in his ability to not get turned around after he'd spent so much time learning how to keep track of where he was.

WC: 321 (1102/1500)

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