What Happens When You Grow Up?

Crucible nodded to confirm that he and Creed had the same relation that Exodus had to his siblings and grinned when he mentioned that he has a big family. "That ya do, and we used ta be even bigger." For a moment he thought of all of the relatives that weren't with them any more and he grew a little sad. It was part of growing old to see others that were older than you pass and it was inevitable that some would simply leave your life for one reason or another, but it didn't make it any harder to accept. He tried not to think about it too much. It wasn't good to dwell on things he couldn't change.

Luckily Exodus eagerly went to test out his suggestion of playing in the snow as a replacement for swimming and he watched as the pup, grinning as he bounced through the snow drifts. It didn't last long though and Exodus soon looked back to ask how he could swim in it. Crucible chuckled with a small shake of his head. "No no, ya can't swim in it like water. But ya can do other things." he pulled himself off of his haunches with a little effort and walked over to one of the larger snow piles that Exodus hadn't jumped through and scattered. "Ya dad and I used ta live in the north when we were kids like ya. There's a lot a snow up there all the time so we played in tha snow way more than tha water," he told his nephew while he started gathering some some snow up with his large paw, making a small pile of it and packing it together.

"So we could do stuff like havin snowball fights... like this!" He scooped up up the ball of snow he had formed with his paw and tossed it so that it could make an arc through the air and land on Exodus' back. He grinned at his little nephew as his tail wagged behind him. He couldn't remember the last time he had just played around like this.

"SPEAK"