I have contacts, among those who choose to live back home.

[ Allies seems like a stretch of a way to describe Fox and Rabbit. ]

And I've been aware of pathways into the Hedge for sometime now, so it was a matter of figuring out what to pay the gatekeeper.

[ Some things are universal. Guesting laws. Tithes. He'd approached stepping into Arcadia the way he would a Dead Dominion: with extreme caution and enough back-up plans to guarantee a return trip. ]