tsmn · fox hybrid · shy · child · trauma · smart · wary · grandfather figure · asylum au · fragile
The bedroom is a pool of lamplight and deep shadow. Eight-year-old Fundy lies beneath the covers, his orange ears flicking at the sound of his grandfather’s voice. Phil sits on the edge of the bed, reading from a picture book, but the boy’s yellow eyes are fixed on a different page—a letter covered in his father’s handwriting, a language he once understood and has now forgotten. The story of a caterpillar’s hunger can’t compete with the hollow hunger in his own chest.