fish bone wish bone

While most of his siblings were getting bigger by the day, the leggy storm cloud of a pup wasn't getting much bigger at all. Indeed, he seemed to be progressing much more slowly. Clinging to the most awkward of phases, appearing as though he'd been hastily cobbled together with spare parts at the last minute. Not that it bothered him much, if at all. In fact, he reveled in his ugliness. The greyscale child was enjoying being largely disregarded, it offered more opportunities for entertaining himself how he saw fit. Creeping about, practicing his pilfering, the works. He was getting pretty good at getting into the outbuildings around the island, ones where most of his packmates never bothered to try getting into. Wriggling and worming his way through tight spaces just to see what was inside. His most recent find had been an old greenhouse, long since fallen into disrepair. It was becoming a project, clearing away the worst of the grime from all of the windows, moving stones about into a configuration he liked best.

Which was where he was now, taking full advantage of the warmth provided by the old building as the winter sun filtered through the high up, dust coated glass. Everything at eye level had been wiped and scrubbed and clawed until the worst of the grime was gone. That allowed him the necessary light to get some work done. His tiny body didn't get much done at a fast pace, so he'd been taking most of the morning to move an old ceramic planter away from the wall. Emptying out the dirt would be too much work, so he was huffing and puffing with all his might for most of the early hours to get it towards the middle of the room.

By the time the sun had risen to its peak, the boy was covered in a layer of dirt and muck. A little winded, but quickly recovering from the strain. He shook his whole body to fluff up his coat, tongue lolling from his maw with the utmost glee. He cast his gaze about, searching for the next object to catch his attention and earn his unwanted "upkeeping" for the afternoon.

"Nimbus"