Sing The Songs of Spring With Me! [Valhallan Spring Festival Opening]

By the time they reached the festival grounds Dantalian was panting hard. Every time her dad looked at her she quickly puffed out her chest and acted like she was fine, but the moment his eyes were elsewhere she wilted. Matching his pawsteps was hard. She practically had to leap from print to print, and even then she almost couldn't make it. Why was he so big? It wasn't fair. Everyone was big! It was really dumb. If it wasn't such a mean thing to do she'd cut them all down to her size. No. She'd make them smaller so that she was the tallest wolf around. Yeah, that sounded better.

When they passed by uncle Eligos, Dantalian straightened up and tried to look casual, like she wasn't about to pant herself to death. Did she look frumpy? She felt frumpy. Dantalian paused to smooth down her fur. "Listen, do you hear that? I think I hear singing. Shall we investigate?" She whipped back around to look up at her dad. He wanted to listen to singing? Normally she'd frown at the suggestion but right now she would happily settle down anywhere as long as it meant she could catch her breath. "Yeah papa let's go!"