Word Count → 296 :: Whoops lolol.
To Sophie's surprise, she was put down immediately after her concerns were voiced, set fluidly back on her four feet with a hand resting on her head. Hotaru had a sad smile on her face, and Sophie flicked an ear, tilting her head curiously at the meloncholy look. It soon went away, however, and Sophie smiled cheerfully at Hotaru's words, chirping, "Try not to!" In answer. In truth, she wasn't really looking forward to growing up; everything seemed to get so much harder, and it didn't take the most observant puppy to realize that. Or maybe it did; Boothe, after all, had yet to notice how bad the family of loners had it. Leon had to hunt for all of them, and that simply...wasn't fair.
She frowned a bit at the thought, but was quickly distracted by Hotaru's instructions, her gaze turning left and right as she looked for the colored tree. After a moment of searching, she figured it was too far away for her to see from here, and bent to scratch at her ear in thought. After a moment, though, she said, "Okay! Sophie look for tree!" And then, after another moment of peering about curiously, "Where west?"
She hadn't been on the road long enough to learn any direction but North, as that was the way they were always headed, and now that she wasn't moving anymore, even that small bit of knowledge had slipped her mind. She took a moment to look for the sun, trying to remember what directions it rose and set in, but all she could come up with was that phrase she'd heard from a woman on the road--"Never Eat Soggy Worms."
Now if only she could remember which word went where, she'd be golden.
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