Mother confirmed that Jefferson did indeed dwell inside the walls of the ranch house. Pripyat regarded the building with some concern. Would it be like the inside of the lighthouse? It had been so comfortable and familiar there. Pripyat knew every nook and cranny of the lighthouse, had spent his first weeks walking exploring everything inside before he had been permitted to explore inside. Now there was a whole new building to acquaint himself with, and it wasn’t even his and Mother’s. It belonged to Jefferson, and perhaps to all of Phoenix Valley.
An ear flicked as Geneva’s voice floated out, and then wet noses touched and the boy let a smile escape him. The familiarity of his mother’s touch eased his worries for a moment and the words almost didn’t matter. Jefferson would smell them? Pripyat inhaled sharply then, and indeed he found many smells permeating the air and ground. One he recognized as Jefferson’s but many were those of strangers and the grey puppy wondered how he hadn’t noticed them before. Still, wouldn’t Mother go tell Jefferson they had come to stay? And also did Jefferson want them there? Either he did or it didn’t matter to his mother, because with her next question she was urging him forward.
"Yeah." Although his voice lacked excitement, there was no hesitance. Pripyat wanted to see it, the longer they looked on from outside the harder it would be to enter. The sooner they made it their home, the quicker he could forget the lighthouse and truly become part of Phoenix Valley. And that was what his mother wished for, and possibly his father too. Well then, he would do it, and he would do it without holding back. They had to jump in. " ‘et’s go," and with that Pripyat turned towards the ranch house, taking the first steps and glancing back to make sure Mother was following.
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