Cole actually smiles a little. "Okay...so, when I first got back, I found out that I needed to go to the stables. But I didn't know why. Turns out, there was a huge rabbit in the stables that looks just like Smokey. But she wasn't. Smokey. I didn't have a place for anything her size, so I was going to go home and try and figure things out, but whenever I tried she would try to follow me. So after awhile I used the network to ask if anyone knew enough about bunnies to help."

He pauses to take a drink. "Macaque...being, well, him...just showed up and offered to try and connect us so that we could understand what her deal was. So he touched her, then I touched him and it was a bit like one of those mind melds in a movie. I was able to ask her her name and how she knew me, and she kind of used pictures to answer. Her name's Ash, and she's protective of me. So...I still couldn't leave her there since she wouldn't let me, but Macaque offered to leave a portal in the stable os she could see me at home and she agreed to it. But...I'm pretty sure it was because she could be half in the house, because she spent the next week or so just laying in the portal. Which means someone went to the stables and there was just a rabbit butt relaxing on the floor."