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[Phoenix]

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Already am. Hmm… this thread is actually set quite a bit before Firefly disappeared, but I can work around it. Phoenix almost regretted the day he’d decided to dedicate his life solely to the pack. If he had just goofed off a little more instead of struggling so hard to fit in and make a difference, perhaps then he wouldn’t have caught Gibraltar’s eye and wound up with the responsibilities that imposed upon his family. What was it iskata had once said to him before they were mated? He needed to live for himself a bit more. At the time he didn’t agree with her, but now he could see the wisdom of her words. It was easy to, after all the time they spent in each others’ minds. It was just a shame that they were both to stubborn to change and learn from each other. The father chuckled a bit at his son’s question. Pups were in too much of a hurry to grow up. He recalled the time when Le Soleil in Teh Sky had asked similar questions. Thankfully his prior experience as a father could benefit the children he had now, and he could now anticipate such questions and prepare answers for them ahead of time. In that respect, Loony Luna and Le Soleil in Teh Sky had really gotten the short end of the stick—Phoenix had little idea what he was doing when he’d raised them, though thankfully they’d grown up to be good, responsible wolves in spite of him. “Your job,” he answered, “Is t’learn everythin’ you can from the adults, so when you grow up you can take care of yourself an’ your pack.” Firefly was the anomaly of the litter, the hardest to manage, and yet ironically she was the one most like her parents at that age—Iskata especially. She was definitely her mother’s daughter, pushing the boundaries and not taking “no” for an answer. “A’course she loves us,” he reassured Icarus. “She jus’ likes t’do her own thing; but when you go off on your own y’get lonely. Jus’ give her some time, an’ she’ll realize how much she really does love you deep down.” As they came upon the river Phoenix swerved to give it its space. “Watch your step, th’river can be dangerous, ‘specially at night,” he warned, once again switching into protective parent mode.

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