Cryptis couldn’t sleep. She lay awake against Crux’s side for a long time, before she gave up on it. Her future sat so close, that all she could do was think about it. There was so much she wanted to ask Crux, so much she wanted to commit to. She was a little afraid of moving too fat, and scaring the boy away. She couldn’t lose him, not now.
She wiggled carefully out of his side, and trotted into the night. Letting her paws take her where they would. There was a crispness to the air that felt good on her vulnerable lungs, and she almost didn’t notice the scent of wolf drifting among the scent of trees until she was almost upon him. “Oh! Hello again” she said, smiling at her mothers old friend. “Can’t sleep either?” she wondered.
