She was deep in sleep after a long night and day. Her children were nestled closely to her stomach. Rousing slightly from her sleep when she heard heavy footsteps sound outside the door a little ways, she knew instantly was Gabriel. Something was wrong, a thick scent of smoke drifted in from the door, but it was not near them. Still clouded with sleep she raised her head, tilting it slightly, then his voice came and her red eyes fell upon her two children who were still sleeping. Rising to her four legs, Faolin was in her quad form, but quickly shifted to halfling. Clumsily she grabbed a bag that she kept and threw a couple needed supplies in it before throwing it over her back in a weird manner. Swiftly she finished shifting as she realized she had a tad bit more of time and swooped up the two sleeping puppies in her arms, wrapped them in a blanket and bolted out the door.
Gabriel, what's going on? she asked, but was soon to get an answer. Fear clouded her eyes, but she followed right in behind her mate. Rachias tried to bolt off, but there was nothing Faolin could do and she looked helplessly as Gabriel chased after her, soon returning to the small group. The queen was weary and she felt dead, nothing floated through her mind. She was in a daze, completely swallowed up in the whole ordeal that was taking place. The stench of the smoke burned her eyes and her lungs and she covered the heads of her children with a blanket so they would not have to breathe in the awful scent.
Hybrid soon fell into line, but Faolin hardly noticed anything and just quickly made her way. It felt like they had been traveling for hours and she had stopped to shift back into her halfling form. She carried Talitha in her jaws while letting Ezekiel trot beside her, switching the two back and forth as one grew quickly tired. Gabriel was close ahead of her and when they had stopped finally she let out a sigh, finally collecting her thoughts. Red eyes drifted towards her mate and they stared at him with sadness. Dropping her stuff she nosed the children close to her as she quickly trotted towards Gabriel and sat beside him giving his chin a couple licks and pushing her muzzle through his mane. He was much bigger than she was, especially with the size differences between a were and a regular coyote. She let out a sigh and her head drooped down, swiping her tongue over each child's heads.
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