take me down to the paradise city [darya]
Darya was being bad right now, she knew that and even as she thought about it she pulled her ears back but, well, she was curious to see where mama was going! So the girl snuck as stealthily as possible after the white woman, which on her own wouldn't have been stealthy at all but luckily the snow helped to mute her clumsy waddling. She stopped when her mother stopped, freezing so that she doesn't see her. Though as the snow became thicker and wetter the pup found it harder to keep pushing forwards, the snow sticking to her limbs and chest. She watched her mother bury something under the wet covering and curious the girl stopped to dig it up again.
Tiny paws uncovered a frozen bird and Darya felt tears springing to her eyes. It was just like the deer her father had brought them a little bit ago and the girl felt her chest constrict. She didn't like the cold, stillness that set in on the animals her father brought them. Darya stared down at the unmoving thing, tears falling upon it's frozen corpse. When the pup finally lifted her gaze her mother had dissipated from view and the girl felt a new emotion overtake her.
Fear.
The girl, cast her teary gaze around wildly trying to find her mother's form. She couldn't! Lips quivering, ears pulling back and tail tucking Darya began to cry again. A high terrible wail pulling from her lungs with more force than one might expect from such a relatively tiny wolf.
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