This based loosely on the classic story: The Grasshopper and the Ant.
Rey and his mate lived on an old forgotten mining area with few other fluffy family. The rest of the fluffies eats, play and frolicking most of the time as berries are full around them.
But to Rey who used to the horror of winter from his old family. Begin collecting food outside their area as autumn begins to show. Day after day he and his mate who was already with his child help him gather berries, leaves and any food worth storing. The other families fell on deaf ears when he beg them to start gathering food.
Soon winter comes and the cold blast begin building up, Rey calmly closed the opening of his nest as snow slowly covers the ground.
Days later screams of fluffies looking for food and warm shelter echoed the upper ground. Screams as wild beasts devouring them in the last effort for a decent meal.
For Rey and his small family they are safe and have enough until the sun shine again and spring arrive.
I’ve always been oddly fascinated by the idea of fluffies having elaborate underground burrows. Perhaps they have a fair bit of rabbit DNA? That would explain a lot, actually. And now I want a fluffy / Watership Down crossover.
On a different note, your fluffies have the best shocked / horrified expressions. Fluffy in upper right made laugh just because of her face.
Well feral hooves are more adopted in diggin of course those are old unfinished digged area so Rey just dig a few more for space for his mate. Added bonus some glowing crystal and an old but still well powered miner hat for emergency.
You know whats fun about hypotherima? Said during the last stage of hypotherma is that the get one big burst of heat and then they succumb to the cold. I Wonder what thats like for a fluffy, a warmth so strong it makes them over-heat, and then promptly try to burrow for one last ditch effort to keep warm.
For what it’s worth, a lot of stories draw from Efrafa, either directly or just as a by-product. Maroonfall comes to mind, but there are shades in any “bad herd” narrative IMCO.
Ah yes, I love fluffies who actually know how to live life well in the wild and not go and just eat everything they see. Such a good boy, he definitely be a good leader to be honest uwu
