Thank you @jayna. Can I confess that when I wrote this I had a thought about how it might seem to your practiced eye? Of course, every time I read it I see something to change, but it was fun to write and I'm so glad that my very special audience 'heard' my message.

Thank you for that wonderful prompt. Shadow. It hit me, but I was so busy I couldn't stop to put something together. A great prompt can give rise to many stories.

I appreciate your kind words.

(You are so right...the tears are not just for the fox. They were suppressed and controlled, but finally she was free to feel emotions that had been there all the time. She cries for the fox, and the man, and all the other suffering she has seen at the hospital.)