Ridin' on the Slip'nSlide [Exodus]

She’d been on the verge of waking when her father’s semi-distance voice woke her fully. Alright, so maybe she was already scrambling out of the alcove before she was fully awake, because she bumped into the side of the cave mouth as she raced for the exit, eliciting a muffled ‘Ooch!’ that caused Paladin’s head to poke out of his alcove, bleary eyes blinking before he shook his head and retreated back to sleep.

The young future, now fully awake and sporting a smarting nose, continued her headlong charge down the ravine, Aelloshir bounding after her like a big, cat-shaped shadow with a grumpy rumble, his own nap having been interrupted.

Aurielle paid him no mind, instead following her ears toward where she thought her father might have called, until she slowed down to think it over more and tipped her head up to sniff at the air, searching the breeze for a hint, eyes closed. Oh! There he was.

She grinned to herself and took off at a lope, head high to monitor the scent on the breeze for her sire until she pranced to the shore, highly pleased with herself for tracking him down. Aelloshir grumbled his way to a large rock and leaped to drape his inky form over the stone, inwardly lamenting the lack of heat in it, since the sun hadn’t risen high enough to be hot enough to heat it.

“Da, what’s the lesson today?” Had she not been told by Paladin about his brother Exodus, she would have asked who it was Regulus had been calling with her, but as it was, she waited with a little wriggle of excitement as she studied the mud and sticks and creek stones at her father’s paws.

She well and truly had begun to fill out, lanky legs and big paws suggesting at her adult form, but the fur along the whole of her scruff had certainly well surpassed the natural length of her coat, waves and curls growing in locks from between her ears to the base of her shoulders. Her tail, too, bore the long hair, and currently, that fur was rapidly getting caked in mud as it smacked the ground.

Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Hear" ---- Think