To the Rescue!

Tree hopping was a skill . Nya, it was an art. There was a beauty to it, finding the right angle, judging his branch, the one across from him and instinctively knowing the weight of his body. Failure meant injury, death, or worse. Embarrassment.
He was dangling preciously from a long branch, he crouched so far from the trunk, that his supporting limb swayed at the slightest of movement. It was his riskiest jump of the day, knowing how pushing off the branch was going to bow it, and ruin his jump. But there had to be a way to judge it, to compensate for his own movements, right?

He tensed in his crouch, shuffling slightly backwards, tongue hanging just pass his fangs in concentration as he worked through the motions in his head, of hos the branch would dip down, and he would throw himself forward. He wouldn’t aim for a branch higher then him, but one lower. Not until he could compensate for the -- was that a howl? He turned suddenly, ears cocked, and the movement shook the branch, and with a yelp, he tumbled free and smacked the ground only a short distance below him.

The tiny wolf shook his head, glancing about quickly to ensure no one saw, and uttering a curse at all the sisters in the world, he bounded back up the tree and took the safer course to jump to the next one, and the next, leaping his was to where he had left his sister at lunch time.

As terrible as sisters where, it was a brothers duty to look out for them, and being a whole thirty seconds older then Vel, meant he had to take this duty seriously. He approached her tree and was able to land a branch above hers, little head peering over the edge, tilting to the side with an inquisitive frown. “if I have to watch one more birth of a sea cow Ve-Ve i’m going to push you of your branch.” he warned. If that was what she had startled him into falling for, he really was going to push her.

Looking downwards as he was, he squinted at the silhouette of something moving in the water below them. “What’s that?” he asked, immediately curious and forgiving. Had his sister shown him an interesting creature to harvest?