OOC: 807 words; I based it off of the general age from the luperci chart and went by the age in human years and compared it with what my boy knows and I am so bad. Sorry this took forever, life just took over.
Lotus didn’t know of anything warmer than the winter. So to him this weather was normal. No doubt he would be lost as it moved into spring and then summer. What would he do without the snow that he was accustomed to? He would just have to find new ways in which to entertain himself. Find other things to do and enjoy. He was young after all. The world was his playground. And with each passing month he grew older. And as he grew older the farther out he could start to explore. Right now he stuck around the tribe lands. He also didn’t see any reason to worry about his wanderings. What could possibly happen to him on the tribe’s lands? Certainly no harm should come his way. Why would the wolves on this land want to harm each other? Why would any wolf want to harm another? It simply made no sense at all to him.
“I think it is really pretty. And look I can sneak around.” With that being said he ducked down into the snow and took a few steps forwards. He then popped back up with a shout. “Boo!” The boy giggled, little body shaking along with the sound. “I scared you, didn’t I?” Clearly Lotus was the sort to be easily amused. The sort to be able to make a game out of most anything. But wasn’t that the way that most young actually were. They were able to find ways to amuse themselves without needing much in the way of encouragement or possessions. But that also seemed to make him a handful for his imagination took him off on adventures of fancy. Just like now.
The boy tilted his head to the side as he tried to think of something that was soft. “But the snow is soft.” Not that it occurred to him that another requisite, though unspoken, was that the soft something had to be warm as well. So as he thought more head tilted in the other direction. “Fur is soft too.” Again, not much help but it was the best that he could come up with. He only had limited knowledge of the world after all. That meant that he could only give the answer of things known to him already. He was still learning after all.
“Mommy and Daddy are busy doing leader things.” That’s right, his guardian was one of the leaders. So by default, in the pup’s mind at least, the other leader was his Daddy. To his young mind that was just the way things worked. Genetics didn’t even play a part in the matter. If they did then he would realize that he looked like neither of the beings that he claimed as his parents. He had no idea that he was adopted. Why should it matter if they weren’t related by blood, just so long as he was loved and cared for properly. Though with the way that he was always taking off on his own without a word to anyone most would begin to think the latter half of the previous statement wasn’t true. But Ember did care for him. She simply had a lot on her plate to deal with. She had her duties on top of trying to keep tabs on him.
“I’m Lotus.” He gave his name before a noise stole his attention. Ears twitched at the sound of the bark and head swiveled in the direction that it came from in order to see what was going on. It wasn’t his Mommy so he wasn’t being made to go home so far. He really didn’t want his fun to end early. And clearly it wasn’t. His tail wagged as he was talked to. He didn’t exactly understand what she was talking about but it didn’t stop him from responding anyway. “I made it a long way and I’m not even tired yet!” He had no idea who the other female was but it didn’t matter to his at all. It was all a child’s exuberance of being noticed and talked to. He really was a chipper and naive little thing. But could he really be blamed for that?
The mention of a he had Lotus glancing around to see who was being talked about. His little body even turned in a complete circle to see if he could spot the said he. What was little know to everyone but his Mommy was that Lotus saw himself as a girl. Maybe not entirely feminine since he didn’t mind getting dirty but he still thought of himself as a girl nonetheless. “I don’t see him. Where is he? Is he hiding?” Lotus moved towards a nearby tree in order to glance behind it to see if anyone was hiding there but his search came up empty.
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