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seconds from the aftermath, happiness from beyond
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[html] So sorry for the delay D:
It was not necessary to know everything about something to be able to appreciate it, but Hemming found it helped to know a few little facts. Nature had an odd way of keeping her creatures, their methods of survival and functioning varying so greatly it would never be possible to catalogue them all. The humans had dissected things carefully, and had started to do experiments that the wolf wasn't able to understand completely, and had learned many valuable things about the richness of the world. Despite their knowledge they had failed to maintain it as well as they could have, and so perhaps understanding did not necessarily convey an appreciation for something.
There were more of the little creatures around than it was possible to see, a truth that became evident as Anu jumped back in surprise. Surely whatever had touched her had darted away by now if it was capable of doing so, and as the whirls of dust that the female's displacement had made settled to the bottom of the sea it was clear that no creature was still there. It seemed likely to the wolf that it had been one of their little octopus friends, and grinning back at Anu, he said jokingly, "Aw, it only wanted to give you a hug."
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