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The day was new, with the sun’s light only just high enough to be seen through the bare branches. The leaves were gone, only a few stragglers left upon the finger thin twigs. Cold air was sweeping in, in hard gusts that brought the unwelcome thought of winter. Her coat was thick and ready, and the scenery had already settled for a season on frozen ground and snow. Anu however was already missing fall and yearning for spring.
Four paws danced over the fallen and crisp leaves, decaying and returning to the earth from which they originated. Her light but swift step kept her blood rolling and her body warm. Maybe if she had bulk she would be able to keep herself warm, even when standing still. But until that day she would rely on her coat and pumping heart.
She was rarely alone any more, with the pups and Nani filling the space around her. It was a warm and comforting feeling, to know that she need not be alone. But the part of her, the part that called her away for her family and home was still speaking. It was pushed her to roam, to find the places she had never been and to seek the answers to her always-present questions. But, it was a quiet whisper that the simple sound of her breath could drown out.
Of course, as she wandered away from the cave she called home the small blue bird accompanied her. His fluttering and chattering filled her ears and the air around her head. He wandered where they were going, and whom they were meeting. Who was it that they looked for, and would they eat? Even though he didn’t speak, she knew that he thought such things.
She ignored him, and wandered to a place among the trees that surrounded their cave she had yet to explore. It wasn’t far till the trees opened and led her to a meadow, though not an ordinary meadow. The cold of fall and coming winter had crushed most of the grasses, leaving each strand brown with death. Among them color brighter then the newest fall leaf caught her eye, their round shape arching over the ground and calling the pair to investigate further. |