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Lori fell asleep after a couple hours of lying in her nest.
She opened her eyes and she was outside, and it was daytime. But, this place wasn't anywhere she had been recently, but it seemed familiar. She looked around and saw a hole in the ground. It looked like a molehog hole. She walked over and called down into it.
"Hello?" She called and then put her ear up to the hole, waiting for a response.
"Hello." She heard a little voice behind her that made her jump and when she turned around and saw the little molehog standing behind her rubbing his nose she knew exactly where she was. She got up and walked over to him crouching in front of him. Her eyes became watery and she smiled.
"Now what are you doing here?" She asked the little molehog.
"I don't know," He said in a nasally voice, he sounded like he couldn't breathe out of his nose. "I just came to-to-t-to" He was backing away and he breathed in a couple times and- "Acho!" The sneeze made him rock back on his heels. He rubbed his nose on his arm and sniffled a couple times.
He had light brown hair, just like Lori's, and green eyes. He was about six and was really little. His name was Josh, and he was Lori's brother.
"I just came to talk to you I guess." He said looking at the ground and then at her.
"But you dead." Lori said in disbelief.
Josh stuck out his toung and crossed his eyes.
"Duh!" He said.
Lori smiled and lifted him up, and resting him on her hip, walked over to the burrow entrance.
"Is anyone home?" Lori asked him. Josh shrugged.
Lori put him back down on the ground and bent down in front of the entrance, looking down into the darkness.
"Hmm…" Lori squinted to see if she could see into it.
"See anything?" Josh asked her trying to look around her and down into the burrow.
"No, that's just weird that my eyes aren't adjusting, we'd better just stay away from there."
Lori looked up at Josh. She finally had the chance to say what she'd wanted to for years and she had forgotten all about it until now. Her eyes filled with tears, she had no idea how she was going to go about saying she was sorry.
She opened her mouth to speak and no words came out.
He wiped away her tears and looked up at her with understanding eyes.
"I know. It wasn't your fault, and I don't want you to be sad anymore." He said.
"I can't bear it anymore. Every time I think about you I tear up or worse."Lori explained.
"I want you to remember the fun stuff we did, not just the fact that I died, which isn't even important. It's the games of tag that we played, and the funny stuff we drew. And that one time I sneezed so hard I got stuck to the wall." He said.
Lori laughed a little bit, that was funny.
"Ok?" He asked.
"Ok."Lori said wiping away the remnants of the tears in her eyes.
"Now you have to go into the burrow." Josh said pointing down into the burrow. "And there's one more thing I want you to remember." He said walking right up to her and looking into her eyes.
"I love you." He said quietly and gave her a hug.
"Lori hugged him back and sniffed. "I love you too."
"Now go into the burrow, and I'll be here." He said letting go.
"Ok." Lori said confused.
She walked down into the burrow and she a felt soft grass nest under her opened her eyes and she was back in her room, and oddly enough, she wasn't sad anymore. She didn't feel like crying, she could only think of the dream she had just had.
A smile grew across her face, The Dream gave her a good idea.
VVV
Louis was walking back to his families burrow after a very, very successful foraging run. He would have burrowed home but he had so much food he couldn't have without dropping most of it.
He was looking down; to make sure he didn't drop anything. The Idea came to him that he might walk into something, so he looked up to make sure he was headed in the right direction. His mouth dropped open and his arms went limp as he dropped all of the food.
There must have been a hundred holes in front of him, and mixed in among them was the entrance to his families burrow. He rubbed the skin on his forehead and looked down. He noticed, now without the food to block his vision, that he was standing on an X and he noticed that there was something written in the dirt in front of him.
"Good Luck"
