In Patrick Rothfuss’s The Kingkiller Chronicle , specifically in the novella The Slow Regard of Silent Things , is a mysterious object belonging to the character Auri.
The old folk of the valley don’t speak of them directly. They’ll tap the side of their noses, glance at the tree line, and murmur something about “the russet cousins” or “the ones who know the fire’s other name.” But the children—the sharp-eyed, curious ones—they know the truth. They call them foxen kin . foxen kin