and then it falls.

[Claudius Aston]

Private for Anatole.
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[/html]He knew, with undeniable certainty, that his home would not survive. It made him sad to think that all of the effort he'd put into making it his home after he had claimed it from his family would be for nought. It made him sad to think that if Tayui, Attila, or Océane ever came back, their family's safest place would be no more. It wasn't just the memories of the place that made it difficult for him to let go, but also all of the items he had stored in it. He had started moving some of his things the day before, but there was still more he needed to get.

With the basket he had made with Saqui, he took trip after trip in his two-legged form taking as much as he could carry from his den back to the village. Now, he had crawled into the farthest part of his den searching for the small things his siblings had given him over the years. He had a few toys that Attila no longer used and gifts from Noir and Océane. He couldn't just leave them there. His eyes began to well up as he thought about Toefur, Noir's most prized possession. He couldn't leave all of this behind.

He brought out the last few items to his basket before he remembered there was one last thing. He returned to the cave and reached out with his left hand to grab one last item. That was when he felt the cave shake and the rocks start to fall.[html]

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