One of the greatest joys in life was running into an old friend in a foreign land.
That was why Lexie and Mike hadn't panicked when they first landed in the unfamiliar alternate world. They knew they had an acquaintance here!
They'd planned to fill their bellies before going to that person, and they'd never expected Fennec to reach them first!
Lexie was over the moon. "How did you know we were here?"
"Shannon told me," Fennec replied.
After receiving a message from Shannon, she followed their scent trail to this spot. Seeing that there were others around, she added, "Macaron followed the scent and led me here."
Macaron was the fox once raised by Thalia in the alternate world. After she left, everything she had, including her home, savings, and pet, was inherited by Fennec.
Lexie hadn't made it into the alternate world during the last incident, so she'd never met the fox. She just thought it looked kind of familiar to the one Shannon had back home.
As they talked, the owner's wife curiously leaned in. "Macaron? That name sounds just like the fox from the influencer I keep seeing online. Is it the same fox?"
The owner looked startled and turned to the fox at Fennec's feet. "A fox?"
Wasn't that a Samoyed?
With its white fur, he just assumed it was a Samoyed. No one would walk a fox around town, after all.
Fennec gave a small nod as acknowledgement. Then, she turned to Mike, Lexie, and Heston waiting outside, and urged them to come home with her.
Earlier, Mike and Lexie had no money for food. But now that someone had their back, it was only right to have Fennec pay the bill.
At first, the owner's wife refused. She'd said it was her treat, after all. But seeing how insistent they were, she finally relented to let them pay and gifted them a few bottles of soda for the road.
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