Dawn broke over the late september morning and the young male woke quickly. He'd gotten used to waking up on his own now, gotten used to the idea that Siku was not coming back. And though occasionally his mind would shift towards her, he did well to push her away and forget about her. She obviously hadn't cared about him in the way that he cared about her if she would abandon him without a backwards glance. It had been nearly two months since she'd gone and he was doing well at getting on with his life, although he could always see what he thought to be pity in his brothers eyes whenever they met. He already had it all and he must have seen how much Saul had hurt when the white woman had first disappeared. Saul had much more to concentrate on at the moment though and it was the small festival tonight that held his attention. Rising and heading over to the East River to bathe and wash away the night and previous days muck from his coat, the young Hui K'o spent the next few hours purging his mind of all that had happened the past few months. He didnt want to think about it.
He'd told Eclipse to be in the lobby of Cerne Rise early in the morning, but her early and his early were two completely different things. His early was before dawn whilst hers was probably about half nine or something. He knew he had a little while to kill yet so he moved out towards the Abbey. He would have gone to see the horses, check up on the newest addition to his brood of animals. Gypsy had been with them almost a month and was consequently nearly a month pregnant as far as her scent was telling him. Hermes' had gotten his wish, although there seemed to be a rivalry between the two mares that were pregnant with Hermes' foals for the stallions attention. Saul tried his hardest to keep them away from each other as much as possible until everything settled down and the two no longer hated one another.
He stayed a while in the Abbey gardens before the autumn sun told him it was getting on. He said a silent fairwell to the waterfall before moving back down the valley towards Trenton. They would be coming back this way shortly, but it seemed rude of him to ask Eclipse to meet him out in the forest. It took him about half an hour to get back to the house he had been working on since July. He entered the house through the doors that he and Temo had found, taking in a deep breath. It was starting to smell like home, that was for sure. Settling down in a cross legged position on the floor he waited for Eclipse to descend to the floor so that they could get hunting.
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