Adventure and Mayhem

Walk | "Talk" | think

Briar waited not so patiently as her father laid the ground rules and her mother seconded them, shifting eagerly from paw to paw while she waited for the world to be opened up to them. Once the door to their den was opened up she gave a huge puppy grin and hurried up to the door right behind her other siblings, but made sure to return the boop her father gave her to his much larger nose and gave her mother's leg a nuzzle before darting out into the open. Her wide, turquoise eyes looked all around the open area of the plains and her tail was wagging so hard that her whole butt wiggled in the process. She didn't know where to start! There was all kinds of grasses and plants and stuff to look at and- was that a bug?

A cricket hopped away from the group and into the grass and it immediately stole her attention while one of her sisters called to their mother about some kind of flower and another just yelled her goodbyes before she took off to explore. Briar dropped down into a very wiggly and unbalanced version of a hunting crouch and started stalking after the cricket in question that was currently lingering right at the edge of a thicker patch of the tall grasses. She got a couple of feet from it before the jumpy insect hopped away again and for a little bit she entertained herself with just running up to it and getting into her crouch again in a vain attempt to catch the darn thing.

With a hop her front paws landed on its body and she felt the bug crunch under her paws, her feline claws finding purchase on the insect that she had hunted. Her huge grin returned at her little victory, her tail wiggling again. However, as soon as she lifted her paw to check out what had happened to it, she realized that the bug had left a fair amount of gross guts and stuff on her paw pads. Her smile dropped off of her face immediately and her ears folded back against her head. It was so yucky! "Dad!!" she squealed, turning to run back to where her parents were standing. She sat down in front of Sirius with a pout and lifted her front paws to show him the terrible bug guts that were stuck to her paw pads and the fuzzy fur that grew between them. "Daaaaad it got its guts all over meeeee," she whined, her wide eyes insistent that he fix it right away.