Channeling Miyagi [meeting]

There was just so much to explore in this new territory. She could barely keep still, or contain her excitement. She scampered about the castle, attempting to find where her mother and father had first met. She found hidey-holes in crumbling sections of the stone. One in particular had a curtain of vines before it, and you had to wiggle your way inside. Once in, no one could see you!

She was exploring that one for the first time when her father called the meeting. She was eager to join, and see what her father had to say. It would probably be about the new lands they were settling into, right? Only, when she tried to exit the hidey hole, she discovered the vines held prickly thorns, and she couldn’t seem to wiggle just right to avoid them. Was she stuck? No! She couldn’t be late! She wiggled and pushed and shoved her way out of that hole, and emerged on the other side with bedraggled fur, missing patches in places, thorns in her coat. Her entire body looked like someone had rubbed her coat the wrong way, and it stuck up on ends.

She had no time to fix it, she took off scampering, and arrived to see half her siblings and her mother had already made it. She slowed down, walking more regally, head in the air despite her terrible appearance as she sat calmly beside her mother like showing up with patches missing her coat was ususual.