Today was an important day, because her mother had given her a task. Eris may have meant it more as a "get out of my hair, go bother your babysitter" remark, but that wasn't the way that Ataxia had taken it. To her, it was a serious mission and she needed to complete it with all appropriate haste. As soon as the order was given, she had taken off for Magnolia's den. The den was not far and even though she was young, she new the route by heart. Eris probably followed behind to make sure her daughter arrived safely anyway. If so, Ataxia wouldn't have noticed because she was intent upon reaching her goal. As soon as she arrived at the den, she promptly dove into her babysitter's home and started sniffing around: she had to find Magnolia!

In the way of the very young (and perhaps the very old), she quickly forgot what her special mission was. So it was that instead of going to find Magnolia to check in and see what they would be doing for the day, she started to poke around. Whatever she found close enough to the ground, she would sniff, look at, and poke. Most things were boring, but she was hoping to find something of interest. Something shiny or something tasty. Things she could take and possibly convince Mag to give to her. Already she had a lovely piece of jewelry from Tlantli, she could expand this collection if she found more fun things!

There were so many interesting things in here! It was hard to focus on just one thing. Actually, Ataxia didn't even really try. She just sniffed at one thing, caught a different smell and sniffed at that. There were smells that had been brought from outside Salsola into the pack and different wolf scents. All of it was fascinating to a puppy usually confined to the area around her mother's home. There was a lot that she had left to learn about what the world had to offer. There was no smell of Sirius that she caught or Eris or Larkspur or Bastion or either of her sisters. So she was the first princess to come here. She wondered if Artemisia and Harlowe would be jealous when she told them. They probably would because they were back home. Back home was boring. There were way more fun things in this shack than where she came from. Probably because they were newer to the young pup's eager senses.

Ataxia was so absorbed in what she was doing that she didn't even notice when Magnolia came in. With her back turned to the entrance, she shoved her nose into a corner of the shack to scent at something interesting. Right as she was trying to figure out what it was, she was swept up into someone's arms. She let loose a surprised little yelp, her ears flattening and her body automatically going limp. Uh oh! Her bright blue eyes looked at the face of her captor, who was speaking already and asking who they had. Ataxia wiggled her tail to look as cute and innocent as possible. "I Ataxia! You Mag?" she asked, poking her nose at the adult. If she was able to reach, she would lick at the Luperci female's jawline. She knew how to wield her adorableness.