perfection! i should have mentioned it, so sorry!
He had no idea that adults did such a thing! Acting, as his new friend explained, was just like playing pretend. Something that adults did, was something Alder really liked to do. He thought about it for a moment, brows notched and his lips pouted slightly as he was deep in thought. Of course he would have to ask his mother about it, and instantly he wondered if she would approve. Anu was not the type to judge her son, but he yearned for her approval even though it was something that was not rare at the least. She praised him often and gave plenty of support for what ever he did and yet he looked to her again and again for reassurance.
As he roared and growled and swiped his claw filled paws Alder fell into the roll of the maned lion as if he had been born as one. He loved to dream of and play like other animals, he loved to hear stories about them and to see them in person. It was slightly upsetting that he couldn't speak to them, and that those words he chose so meticulously could not be heard by birds and the small creatures that hid from him. So he found that pretending to be them held him hear what they had to say.
When Shawchert spoke the single name of the creature he was pretending to be Alder smiled brightly at him. Nodding his head quickly, Thats it! his words came with excitement. Alder was slightly out of breath as he padded up closely to the now not so strange male and he felt as comfortable with him as he might with any of his pack members. Do you act too?
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