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Fivver snaps awake, white teeth turn to wisp as his dream dissipates. His mouth is open, lungs full, moments from crying out. Instead, he's still.

"Fivver?"

The world is dark in his shared burrow, the dirt beneath him, warm from his own body heat.

"Fivver!" His eyes flicker and the world comes into focus. Another rabbit (Hazel, yes, this is Hazel. See? You're not asleep anymore.) stares down at him, face full of concern. When he speaks, it is nearly a whisper, like he didn't want to startle his brother further. "You alright?"

The smaller rabbit breathes, his body drops as tension is released. He doesn't speak, simply letting his mind and body adjust from the terrible, burning blue—

"—fire..."

The word slips free from his mind and out of his mouth with little thought.

Hazel tilts his head, ever attentive of his smaller brother. "A fire Fivver? That was your dream?" He's pushing it, unsure if he should. But...

Fivver looks up at his, as if just now catching his own wandering mind. He blinks slowly and sluggishly gets up. The dream...urgency flooded it. Yet...it didn't feel...directed at him. No, the fear he felt before...it came from the fox. A fear far greater than the instinctual need to run from the other.

Is was because of that, that Fivver decides to keep this dream to himself. If his dream wasn't really directed at him...wasn't warning him...then it was telling him something else. Other than the fear that told him to run from the predator...to hide...he felt the need to stay and wait.

He didn't like it. He didn't really know what to make of it.

Like the sun rises as the moon falls, the twist of this dream felt...opposite...unnatural.

He opens his mouth and finds his brother still staring at him. Oh. How long had he stood here?

"A fire...the forest was on fire Hazel..." Even with a clearer mind, the words come out frail. "And..." a fox... he pauses, eyes narrow, "I felt...the need to wait."

Hazel leans back, "Well, were not going anywhere."

Fivver looks down, back to the floor of their home. "Right."

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