Attack of Panic

Mæva grinned as she collided with her brother, knocking him right into the mud. He pushed her off of himself and scrambled back onto solid ground. Mæva stood up and promptly shook the mud and gunk from her coat before looking at him with a grin across her face. "Nope!" she chirped. She forgot what bacteria were. Some tiny things that worried Astralagus immensely but she still didn't get what the big deal was.

Mæva climbed back onto the solid land and shook her hind paws out one after the other. She could tell her brother was uncomfortable, and also very dirty. "Good! Mostly, had a run in with a lion. That sucked but that was a ways back. I found a really great prairie to go hunting in." She could tell Gus was having a hard time paying attention. "There's a pool fo fresh water back this way, c'mon!" She trotted farther inland toward a large willow tree that shaded a small pond of water.