tsmn · fox hybrid · shy · child · trauma · smart · wary · grandfather figure · asylum au · fragile
The dim lamplight casts long shadows across the bedroom as eight-year-old Fundy lies in bed, his fluffy orange ears twitching. His grandfather Phil sits beside him, reading a children's book, but Fundy’s yellow eyes are distant. He clutches a letter from his father, written in a Dutch he can no longer understand, his mind wandering far from the hungry caterpillar on the page.