set just after this thread in the evening hours of 2/14/23
for @Hagar @Daegal @Avella @Nineve @Rashina any of the family that's around, please let cade post first c:
His sides were burning and his legs numb, the sky in the light fading to a bruised blush by the time they reached the familiar, draping boughs of the willows. Even bare in the winter cold, they were a welcome sight to the Archer lad.
Home.
They had made it home safe, and intact, it seemed.
He still wasn't sure what they were running from.
Glancing toward the other boy, Iseldir nodded his head and slowed his pace, slinking toward one of the large trees with its protectively hollowed twisting roots. Here on his home turf Izzy knew all the good hiding spots.
It took a second to catch his breath, and let out a bark for one or both of his parents, hoping for both but at least for the reassuring form of Hagar, who had protected Daegal from a bear and who, he was certain, would know what to do in a situation like this.