It's a baby, now gush and smile so we can get back to fighting

He was peering so intently through the trees, looking so hard, that he wasn’t really seeing. He was sure he would know what direction she would come from, but truly, she was taking her sweet time. Perhaps she was doing.. Whatever it was girls did. Admiring her reflection in the water somewhere, perhaps. Then he grinned, because Balsam was the one who did the admiring of Velvette, not Ve herself!

Lost in his thoughts, and getting impatient on where his sister was, he stretched up on his back paws like a meerkat, peering through the branches in some vain attempt to spot his sister, and then suddenly she was there.

Vaulting onto his tree in a sudden flash of movement, shaking his branch. With a yelp, the badly balanced boy would topple free, and she would be rewarded with the sudden, startle expression on his muzzle, before he dropped through the canopy and out of sight.

He hit the water with a splash, and well he had had reluctantly learned a little bit of swimming since his last adventure, he was still very unpractised, and slow. As he flailed about, an errant paw would hit the baby Manatee, and hear a sudden surprised squeak of the creature. The mother then made an angry chirping noise, and before he knew it, he was being headbutted by 800 pounds of pissed of sea cow. The force of the push shoved him under the water with a gurgled cry.


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