They had to wait nearly a week before they could leave the safety of the cave. Hoseok had been constantly fucked or been fucking for four days straight each mate taking a turn sleeping when they could.

Jimin and Taehyung stayed in the fur only coming out when they were asked if they wanted to go on walks for fresh food.

"Hoseok up on the wagon," Jin instructed boosting him up by the waist. "Jimin wanna sit with Hoseok and keep him company?" He asked the smaller human who nodded getting placed beside resting fox.

He grinned taking the tail in his hands touching the soft fur. "Does everyone shift to their animal?" He asked Jin who had Jungkook helping him with the wagon.

"I do sometimes, but not much. It takes a lot of energy and some just don't even try because it does more harm than good," he explained.

"I've never shifted," Jungkook grinned, "Yoons says I act enough like an animal," he giggles looking at the mouse try to hold onto Namjoon's fur with Taehyung wobbling with him.

"I did once," Hoseok said keeping his eyes closed "I slept for a week straight and my legs hurt so bad,"

Jimin nodded and started petting the fox between his pointy ears. "You're really soft," he commented "I used to have a blanket this soft,"

"Hopefully you didn't chop up a fox hybrid," he said.

"I do have a question. Why are some, for example, foxes like you and some just little animals?" He asked.

"We all branched out at the same point in our ancestry. We took on more 'animalistic' traits while humans became their own thing," Jin explained "but humans were greater in numbers and decided to build while we stuck more to our roots keeping us humble,"

Jimin nodded watching the two hybrids pull the wagon.

Taehyung wobbled gripping on tightly to the fur. He doesn't have Jimin to hold onto now. The mouse holds onto him grumbling about Namjoon walking like a jackass on purpose.

"Fuckity fuck fuck fuck," Yoongi curses using his tail to wrap around Taehyung's waist.

"You sure do have a potty mouth," Tae said chuckling when the mouse smacked him weekly.

Namjoon grunted in agreement. Bouncing his back making a new string of curse words flow through his mouth.

"How long is this trip?" He asked.

"Should take months, especially with us going through mountains," he said.

"I had a family. A mom and dad more brothers and sisters than I could count with nieces and nephews," he said "Jimin and I lived with them all, it made me happy,"

The mouse tightened his arms around him "maybe we can make you happy,"

Taehyung didn't say anything because he gasped nearly toppling off Namjoon. They had been with them a little over a week and already they had sex in front of them in a cave for a week. He understood that Hoseok went into heat, but he really didn't know much else. Whenever his dog went into heat it wasn't like this.

"Joonie!" The jaguar called the wolf stopped and looked down at him wagging his tail. "We are going up that mountain," he said pointing towards the snow-capped ridges in the distance.

"We'll freeze," he explained.

"I thought that hybrids produced more heat than humans," Tae said.

"Well, yes that is true. Most hybrids would lose a finger or toe from frostbite walking through snow for that long," Jin explained.

"Wolfy can do it though, he'd probably melt the snow," Jungkook said his tail sticking up behind him. Namjoon snorted licking the squirrels face drenching him in saliva.

"I'll lose my tail," Yoongi picked it up, his rounded ears blushing. Taehyung touched it again because it was so different.

"I know, that's why we need to either make shoes or steal some. We can just wrap the furs around us, but our feet will freeze," Jin said.

"Jimin's grandfather was a cobbler," Taehyung said, "he apprenticed under him," the said boy was sleeping.

"You have shoes," Jungkook touched the bottoms of his feet clad in toughened leather and wood.

"You want to try them on?" He asked the squirrel who nodded his head excitedly as Tae slid them off and handed them down.

Jungkook excitedly slid his foot into the tight-fitting shoe wiggling his toes around before he stood. He wobbled taking a few steps back not realizing that balance was different. He had never worn shoes before.

As if he was showing off when they started moving again he took long strides flashing the shoes to Jin who grinned at him ruffling the youngest's hair.

"Mmm I'm hungry," Hoseok groaned sitting up accidentally waking up Jimin.

"There's dried meat in the back," Jin responded "in the barrel,"

Hoseok crawled to the back digging through the boxes and barrels.