Oh the places you'll go
She too had thought the golden-brown woman would have overtaken her, simply because she was larger and, well, an adult. As a grown-up she should have experience in races and be able to beat a pup anytime. Maybe she didn't know the gulley as well as the green-marked girl did, or wasn't in top running form...though purposefully allowing her to win didn't strike the child as a possibility. Whatever, she had won and that was all that mattered. It was her first taste of victory, perhaps not entirely even, though she had won nevertheless.
At this rate she didn't think she would get any faster on her fumbling green paws. She had been pelting pretty fast back there, if she had to admit herself. The momentum had pushed her ears back against her skull, the wind buffeting her ebony fur. It had all felt great. Her heart still thudded in her chest, breaths gradually slowing as she rested on her back, scarlet eyes looking up at the female. "I'm gonna be really big!" she squeaked, rolling onto her side and rising to her paws, shaking the loose dirt and leaves from her pelt. "I wanna be taller than mama." It was her dream, after all, to be the largest in the family. Already she was starting to outmatch her siblings, though her mother still proved to be an obstacle - one that she hoped to conquer. "Where's your den, anyway?" she curiously asked, looking around for another den. "I can't see it."
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