Today Sacre journeyed to return something important. An item, a treasure loaned, by the Moon Goddess to him in the knowledge that he complete his quest in order to gain what it was he wanted. The ability to protect Roux when he needed him. However, on a strange yet joyous day an odd tree had gifted him the item he needed and now it nestled neatly in his tail. Not much long after, he had found Inari and Sacre had never felt so truly blessed in all his short life. There was just one more thing he needed to do and it lay at the top of this narrow path.

Inari jogged not too far ahead, his stubby child's legs not enough to take him out of sight and the stained colt watched him carefully for going too near the edge of the path. Slowly their friendship was blossoming, the cub beginning to show a more courageous side and Sacre often found himself on the verge of a heart attack every time the orange child did something wild or dangerous. It was hard to feed him and they travelled miles at a time just trying to find unoccupied nests to steal eggs for lunch. Sacre and Inari hadn't returned home in a long time and now and then the colt wondered if mother, father and Roux missed him. Had Roux gone back? His brother had always expressed a certain distaste towards their home and Sacre had always valued his freedom over the ominous mountains that trapped them in ice. Was it selfish of him to live how he wanted to? It was something that pained the boy, but he couldn't live any other way these days, he didn't want to be cold any more and that was that.

Returning to the present of climbing to find a God, Sacre's eyes widened as he noticed a familiar golden form and the sooty outline of a fox that could only be called Natraj. Tandavi! A bright smile spread across his once thoughtful features and he rushed forwards to greet her, Inari hanging back a little at his bondeds side whilst nervously eyeing the fox with three tails! The cub looked at his own small, white tipped tail with a forlorn look of disappointment and shock. Life could be cruel even to the innocent.

"Tandavi! Tandavi!" He shouted happily, falling to a halt somewhere in front of her. "What are you doing here?" He beamed, it had been a while since he'd seen a familiar face and the joy was clear on his dark features that lit up like fire in the night.

@[Tandavi]