Seems just like yesterday

OOC: Just a quick back and forth here with Esa/Sterling, feel free to jump in!

Worry plagued the normally carefree mother's mind as she thought of her daughter embarking on a potentially dangerous mission for the good of the pack. Sterling wanted to collect information from other packs, and participate in a raid?! And what about Jade? Was she going to get involved as well? It seemed that all of the pack's youngsters were interested in the raid, but did they really know what they were getting into? Even Dragon... she knew he'd grown a lot as their Alpha, and he had reassured her, promised nothing bad would happen to Sterling... but what held strongest in her mind was the memory of a young, inquisitive child accompanying his mother on a trip through the desert, long before Ivalice had even been formed. That was how she remembered Dragon, the very first time she'd met him. Esarosa had never imagined herself being such a worry wart, but she was concerned and she couldn't shake the feeling. And it seemed just yesterday her own children had been tiny pups, so fragile and vulnerable. Were they really capable now? As she padded away from the meeting - having passed beckoning glances upon her daughter, her mate, and Dragon's brother Kharnage, the one entrusted to accompany Sterling - Esarosa tried to calm her mind. She tried to remind herself of everything she had done as a youngster. She'd left home younger than Sterling was now. She'd survived a crumbling mine-shaft, and had always been a capable hunter, and she'd even come out on top in a bloody, hormone-induced scrap against a trained pack wolf. All without the supervision of any adult. Did she really have any right to worry so much over her daughter, who was well on her way to adulthood? Well, she didn't care what anyone said or thought, she was worried, and that was that! When she'd finally reached a satisfactory gathering placed, she turned and waited, seating herself as she tried to calm her nerves. Sterling would arrive first, a hardened and determined look in her emerald gaze, and Esarosa stared right back at her with matching orbs. "Sterling, are you really sure about this?"  she questioned her daughter, "This could really be dangerous... I just don't want anything to happen to-"  She bit her tongue as she saw the passion in Sterling's eyes grow, adn the girl raised her voice, much to Esa's dismay. "Speak" "Listen" Think