The change in the seasons had come and it had brought another growth spurt to the pup, one of many that would ultimately leave him as the largest in his immediate family. His sudden gain in size meant, to him at least, that he could safely venture further from his mother’s den and into the long grasses of the thicket. The pup was perfectly obscured by the grass, far too small to be seen save for the slight sway in the grass as he bustled through. He had no heading in particular but was dead set on exploring the pack lands that he called home. He stared in wonder at the great blue sky and the weaving of the grass blades as the wind blew, there was simply so much to take in outside the Serpent Plains, but most of all, his sisters were nowhere to be found. Even as bold as she was Derecho wouldn’t even venture this far from the pack, meaning that for the first time in his life he was free.
Tyranis gave a short gasp as a sapphire blue butterfly fluttered down from the canopy of grass and onto a small rock. He stared at it, absolutely mesmerized as its large wings clapped noiselessly together. It was by far the largest bug he had ever seen but aside from that it was so vastly different from any other insect that he had observed that he concluded it was some entirely new creature. Not a bird, not a snake, not a deer and not a bee but something entirely new, and entirely wonderful.
