Naniko was gone…officially she was gone. She left the kids in her trust. It was huge paw prints to fill. She loved the kids so very much, and she knew Ty did but she worried that they would hate her for their mother leaving them. She didn’t want that, nor did she want them hating their mother. The husky marked lady walked into the room she shared with the kids, she wanted to get them each on where own to talk to them, to get to know them better. She just hoped that none of them when off on her in Italian, Pontiac was a smart beast but when it came to any other language then English she was very stupid. She gave the angel Caprica a soft nudge, ”Morning sweety. Wanna go for a romp around the pack land with me? Maybe we can take a trip into the Villa?” She smiled as she stepped back she didn’t want to wake the other two kids, she wanted this just to be her and Caprica.
If there were two things that Caprica enjoyed in life, they were sleep and food. And it was lucky that she was a proficient huntress, because she had woken in the middle of the night to surprise some of the prey that called the Phoenix Valley woodlands home. It wasn't at all unusual for the black furred girl to rise in the middle of the night for a hunt. She was often hungry, but had taken care not to take more than her share in terms of taking meals with her siblings. She was becoming a bit self conscious, although she wouldn't say that she was ashamed of her appetite. She had no control over that part of her; she accepted it as a natural survival instinct and followed it when hunger struck. But at the same time she didn't want to deprive anyone in her family.
"Cinque minuti piu," the girl grumbled blearily and stretched her legs forward. Five more minutes... She had a powerful frame, hidden energy and strength stored in her body. She was larger than her siblings, but she always had been. Again, this was something natural, and something that she tried to accept. Sometimes she compared herself to her petite, graceful sisters Rio and Lucia, but in the end nothing that she tried could change her build. And with a sleepy note of pride she thought that she looked the most like her mother, in terms of her build. She was like Naniko's black furred mirror - powerful, curvy, a pillar of strength. Green eyes shot open as she realized the the female voice beckoning her could not belong to mother. She had left. The young wolfess lifted her head from her paws and then her green colored eyes focused on her husky-marked aunt. "Yo, Aunty," she greeted with a jaw cracking yawn. "What's the word?"
Caprica nodded eagerly and she rose, sleep forgotten now. The thought of spending some quality time with her aunt thrilled her. It would be nice to spend some one-on-one time with an adult she looked up to. She missed her mother very much, but she had to come to terms with the fact that she was not around right now. Caprica knew that her mother would be back one day, but for now Aunt Pontiac was a bigger part of her life than her mother.
And although the girl loved her siblings dearly, it would be nice to venture out as an individual instead of a member of their litter. Her siblings were already far more independent than she was. She liked to stick around Phoenix Valley. It wasn't that she was not curious, and she certainly wasn't afraid, but she liked to take her time with these kinds of things. She learned more slowly than any of her siblings and accomplished things at her own pace.
"Let's peace out," the younger femme said. Her emerald colored eyes were filled with an eager, excited light. "Where do you want to go first?" Caprica knew a lot of Phoenix Valley very well, but she had not explored her entire home. Perhaps they would go somewhere new! But the promise of food was enough to make her excited anyway.
