Fiver and I joined back with Hazel and others to head over to Cowslip's Warren. We encountered a large tree with roots out of the ground, as a field of flowers were there near the warren, with many entrances.

"Sky above us! Every living creature for miles must know that's there." Bigwig slightly admired the warren, despite he figured there was too much opening for any elil could get into the warren.

"Not like the..." I was going to say, until I noticed Bigwig looked back at me. "...never mind."

"Everyone, keep your wits about you." Hazel warned us to be cautious, as we head for a stranger's warren.

We went through the field of flowers and arrived at the warren. The rabbits of that warren peeked out to see new arrivals, even they stared at me with a bow. I still quite don't understand why they're doing this. Cowslip was amongst the rabbits that came out, as he was more of the greeter than the other rabbits of his warren.

"Friends...we're glad that you've come. Especially with your human friend." he stated and even turned towards me when he spoke. "Allow me to take you down..."

"To where?" I asked.

He stopped and turned back towards me. "... to the Great Burrow." He nearly freaked me out a bit, mixed with Hannibal Lecter's facial expression and The Witch's in Hansel and Gretel in the Ray Harryhausen animation. The bucks sniffed, before they ventured inside the warren. The tunnels were bit small that I had to duck and crawl to get where I'm going. By the time we arrived at the main part of the warren... "The Great Burrow", we all gasped and admired the scene as it was large that everyone could fit in this burrow.

"Look at that! Look at the roof! The roots of the tree keep it stable. It's genius!" Blackberry whispered.

"It seems that way." I added.

"Clever rabbits."

The rabbits of that warren stared and bowed to me once more.

"They're taking a great liking to you." Bluebell whispered.

"Whatever it is, it maybe slightly annoying, as I'm not that kind of human they may have visioned to see 'man'." I told him.

"Look at the size of them!" Hawkbit whispered. "They could rip us to pieces in a second!"

"Even they try, don't won't match for Bigwig. They don't seemed to be Owsla rabbits from their appearances or witting about them." I told him. Bigwig overheard me, before we all had our eye contact with Cowslip.

"Hazel... rabbits... and 'man'... may I be the first to welcome you all to our warren." Cowslip welcomed us.

"Thank you. We're glad to be here." Hazel stepped forward and thanked him. "This is a fine warren you have. When you said it wasn't as big as you'd like, we were expecting something a lot smaller. Were there more of you living here once?"

A small group of rabbits began whispering, just before Cowslip turned at the rabbits and became silent. Perhaps there is something that Fiver, may have a strange feeling about this warren. I could even see it from how Cowslip remained silent and didn't even bothered to answer Hazel's question.

"Why don't you just settle in here?" Cowslip finally spoke and suggested all of us to get settled in. "I think you'll find there's everything you'll ever need." He than dismissed himself, as we began to slightly look around, as we got settled in.

Fiver came up towards me and Hazel. "I've got a bad feeling, Hazel. Why are all the rabbits here so big?"

"Probably they ate much perhaps." I answered, before I spoke to Hazel. "Is it unusual for a rabbit not answering on how they're few rabbits here?"

"Come now, you two. It's just for one night." Hazel told us.

"We were just asking you some questions." I said.

"Not sure... they seemed healthy rabbits enough." he finally answered. A doe came out of no where scared the three of us with a jump scare.

"Hello, you must be Hazel!" the doe greeted and spoke quickly. "My name's Strawberry! I'm so excited to make friends with you. Unless you don't want to be friends. It's fine if you don't."

The doe seemed to be lonesome and some what of an outcast of this warren, as I could relate to it by experience. Despite of having an odd feeling about this warren, it doesn't hurt much to make new friends. "It's important to make new friends. Have you been so lonesome in some way?"

"Me? Well of course not, I have some friends here that I get along with." she answered.

"We can be friends." Hazel spoke.

"Oh! Brambles!" Strawberry cheered and over excited. "I knew we'd get on! Come on! I'll take you a tour of the warren!"

"I think we'll like that. Thank you." I spoke to her.

"Come to think of it, I'm pretty good at tours, by the way." she added.

The three of us looked at each other, before looking back at the overly excited and friendly Strawberry. "Uh, we'd love to." Hazel answered to her offer. We started to follow her, as she brought up about many empty burrows, which could be plenty of room for us to have our own burrows to sleep in. She decided to have our burrows next to hers, in case we have questions. She continued to talk, as we stopped for a moment to see most the burrows are empty.

"Why are there so many empty burrows?" Fiver asked us.

"I don't know, perhaps they had 'The White Blindness." Hazel answered.

"Not close, they're eye sights seem normal that they haven't had any sickness at all." I said to Hazel, as he started to sniff a burrow and we saw an expired carrot and lettuce thawing out into rotten vegetables.

"Can't smell any signs of the disease." Hazel summed up.

"Here we are!" Strawberry called out for us, as she found a burrow perhaps. We went to the same path she took and lead us to a closed space and there we saw a sparkling room like a chandelier was attached to the roof of the room and shined beautifully. Only than to find out the sparkling source was from a pink crystals that are embedded on the ground.

"Newcomers don't usually come here, but since we're officially best friends, I'm going to make an exception." she said, as the three of us continued to gaze at the crystals. I started to walk towards it, as I bent my knees and admired the crystals and their shining lights reflecting around us.

"Enchanting isn't it?" Strawberry asked us.

"It's beautiful, than enchanting. I would thought they would be in caves, not like this." I stared at the crystals.

"A rabbit called Laburnum did it." Strawberry added. "We call it a shape."

"Really. I wonder how no one could find it. The next thing it could happen is that some human would find it and discovered it soon after." I said. "What is it you do in here?"

"It's where we come to give praise to Frith." she answered.

Hazel came towards where I was and sniffed the crystals. "But what's it for?" He touched it.

"Careful!" Strawberry exclaimed, that he backed away from it. "We don't want to damage it. We're blessed to have it."

"So you guys come in here to pray for blessings?" I asked her.

"It's such a special place to come to, especially when you're feeling sad." Strawberry spoke, before she lowered her head with sadness hidden inside her.

"Have you always been feeling like that?" I asked.

"Sometimes though, that's why I come here." she answered.

I came to understand a bit, why she comes in the special burrow. "I guess everyone finds themselves a special place to hide when they're sad."

She wandered off, leaving the three of us alone. "What do you make of this Fiver?" Hazel asked Fiver, as he stopped looking at the crystals. He than realized Fiver was gone. "Fiver?"

I stopped gazing at the crystals and didn't see Fiver around. "Where did he went off to?"

"I'm not sure." Hazel wasn't sure.

Kingcup! We than heard Strawberry's voice as she was calling for someone, that the both of us followed her voice. "Kingcup, come and meet Hazel and a human." We than caught up with Strawberry to see her looking at the empty burrow that had a spiderweb in the very end of the burrow.

"Whose Kingcup?" I asked.

"Oh, I didn't realize." she spoke.

"What is it?"

"He's gone." she sadly realized.

"Strawberry I'm sorry. Was he a close friend to you?" I asked in effort to comfort her from her loss. She went on her way, as Hazel sniffed the burrow.

"Seems like no one slept there for days." Hazel said.

"Hazel, I'm little worried about Strawberry. She looked like she's been alone by herself with no one." I worried.

"I'm sure she'll recover from her grief." Hazel assured me.

"Not if she's been living here and kept forgetting that someone she knew passed." I was unsure.

"It's getting late. Let's find a place for you all to sleep!" Strawberry called out for us.

"Fiver isn't around either. We have to go searching for him." Hazel said.

"No, it's alright Hazel. You get yourself warm and I'll find him. Goodnight." I spoke.

"Goodnight, Kevin. Be careful." he said, before he headed his way to meet with Strawberry to get acquainted to his burrow.

I began searching thoroughly throughout the warren and found no sight of Fiver. I even asked the bucks, if they have seen him. Apparently, Bluebell than told me that he headed outside and didn't said a word. I than left the warren, as it began raining once again. With the use of my phone, I used it as a flashlight to shine my way. I couldn't be able to find Fiver for a bit, until I found Fiver, trying to keep himself warm by being out of the rain.

"Fiver?"

"Kevin, it's you." Fiver exclaimed.

"Now... why have you just wandered off like that? Your brother is worried and probably feared for the worst that I had to go out to find you!" I told him.

"I'm sorry, Kevin. I just couldn't bear another second of being in that warren." Fiver spoke.

I sighed. "Look... how about you come back and keep yourself warm in a nice burrow and you wouldn't have to be left out in the cold."

"I won't go in there. I feared something's wrong with that warren." Fiver refused.

"You're not expecting to stay out here in the rain and the cold, aren't you?"

"Whatever it may takes. I won't set foot in that warren."

He was defiant about returning into that warren. I wasn't sure what ticked him off in there, except he was suspicious about the rabbit's behavior that inhabited there. "Fine."

"I beg your pardon?" he questioned.

"Fine. You'll stay out here, if that's what you wish."

"If you insist of leaving me, that's fine. I just won't go back to that warren." he stated.

He doesn't seemed to be a stubborn rabbit like Bigwig, but he was in fact a little legit about his reasons. I have some little suspicions about the warren's chief Cowslip and Strawberry, whose more isolated than she's ever been around with anybody. I set my belongings on the ground and unstrapped my blankets and pillow. Fiver was puzzled what I was doing until I gave him a blanket to keep him warm.

"Kevin, what are you doing?"

"Keeping you warm. If you're staying out here in the rain all night. I suggest you keep yourself warm, instead of cuddling yourself to get warm." I tucked him in.

"What about you?" he asked.

"Well... you being out here alone would be your brother's worries. However for tonight, I'll stay with you, so you won't have to be alone." I wrapped myself around with blankets and laid on the pillow.

"Thank you, Kevin." Fiver thanked me.

"You know what Fiver, thank you for earlier today." I thanked him also from our conversation.

"Why do you think Strawberry is sad?" he asked.

"I'm sure because she's either alone without anyone and/or that she hasn't had a single contact with any rabbit that got her cheerful or at least happy. As well losing her friends for sure, as everyone loses someone we loved and/or great friends with." I explained.

"Like you."

"Exactly Fiver, exactly." I said to him. "Well, you better get some sleep. We'll probably get some breakfast in the morning perhaps and by the time it's finish, we may head out our way."

"Goodnight Kevin." Fiver said.

"Goodnight Fiver, do you care for some music? Just to put us to sleep." I offered.

"Well... I guess I won't mind." he answered.

I pulled out my phone and started to play a lullaby song from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I even had to sing the song to Fiver to help him fall asleep, as he was still widely awake from his worries of us being in Cowslip's Warren. It takes memories back, from my parents singing me the song they sang to me, up to my brother Dan singing to me, until he was deployed.

A gentle breeze from Hushabye Mountain
Softly blows over Lullaby Bay,
It fills the sails of boats that are waiting,
Waiting to sail your worries away.

It isn't far to Hushabye Mountain,
And your boat waits down by the quay.
The winds of night sdo softly are sighing,
Soon they will fly your troubles to sea.

So close your eyes on Hushabye Mountain,
Wave goodbye to cares of the day,
And watch your boat from Hushabye Mountain
Sail far away from Lullaby Bay.

After the song was over, Fiver was fast asleep that I became tired. I lie on my pillow and closed my eyes. Perhaps we may dream of us being in Hushabye Mountain sailing off to Lullaby Bay.