Where the Willow Trees Grow

Ralla · 06-22-2011, 06:04 PM

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This is good, since it solves the problem of the puppies still being too young. Strel can brag to Noss later Tongue However...Ahiga tends to wander about >_> (Nootau: Not visible)(Ralla will come in later >_>)

He knew he shouldn't have been up and about in such a way; he knew that his mother would be worried sick if she went into the tree hut and found one pup short of three. But honestly, he was bored to death in that hut, and couldn't wait another week till he was sent to live with Edutsi and Elogi. Ayasha was mostly out, too, since she was already an 'adult' and had her duties. But nope; not him and Alaster and Aleu--they were confined most of the day to the hut. Such an opportunity had presented itself, though, where Nootau wasn't watching him and his siblings and where their mother wouldn't be home till much later; as such, he convinced his siblings to help him work the bucket and pulley that their mother used to get water. Of course it was his own hair-brained scheme, but it had worked; with Aleu and Alaster to ease the rope slowly, Ahiga was transferred to the ground in relative safety--they didn't want to get in trouble, though, and stayed behind.

It was different, running about by himself. He felt braver--more powerful--because there was no one there to watch him. Being a pup still under two full months, he didn't comprehend the true dangers of the world or the rules, and was intrinsically curious... Which, of course, led him to scamper all the way to the borders, which weren't as far from the village as some other points. All the way there and along the edge, where the scent was strong, he pretended to be a mighty warrior, guarding his tribe from intruders. He never expected to actually come upon someone. The white pup with the cowlick in his mane at first hide behind a rock, the area only sparsely forested where he currently was, and peeked out behind it. It was a strange wolf skulking about the border, with a red mane and a strange scent. Quirking his head, he trotted out from his hiding place, totally not afraid--because, really, he didn't know what fear was yet--and went right up to the diving chain-links that separated the two. "Gago nihi?" He spoke in broken AniWayan, because their mother was teaching them both it and English, although to him, AniWayan was far closer in sound to puppy-speak than English, so he used it more.

Moon walks. "Moon talks." Moon thinks.

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