He leaves. He comes back. He’s never gone for long. But now he’s been gone for over twelve hours.
Years ago, in Colorado, we had a cat named Yogi. She was an indoor/outdoor cat and would come and go whenever she wanted. Sometimes she would be gone for days at a time and come home smelling of fireplace smoke. We didn’t have a fireplace.
Perhaps our little frog will come home tomorrow, smelling of smoke.