Too young to take the easy path

She hadn’t realised she had gained an audience. It wasn’t until, as she failed another pass and a voice called out, that she would look up and see the black-gold of the stranger. Panting a little, she picked herself up out of the dirt, and her pride with it. Shaking out her coat, she bounced on her paws a little, considering the words of the other. Shift her weight? That implied there was more to this then just moving her paws. She puffed out her chest, and got her tired paws moving again. She ran the corner, moving her paws, and her weight which she managed to do at the same time, and sprinted around the bend, curving around it successfully, and came to a stop just in front of the stranger.

She let out a whoop of delight, bright red eyes dancing as she grinned at the other girl. She had seen Fel fail, but she had also seen Fel success, so she wasn’t too worried about that. “Good advice. What are you holding there?” she wondered, pointing at the bundle in Seiran’s mouth. The smell reminded her of her mother's den, her healer-mother always had a collection around, and the scents to Fel meant home. Serene had even begun to grow her own herb garden. Fel loved to sit at her mother’s feet, getting in the way more than being helpful, as their mother tended to the herbs.

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