we are a family

Though she'd yet to meet her father, the sound of her call was unmistakable - somehow familiar in its own right despite being something entirely new. She'd been busy just a few feet from her family's den, digging in the dirt and looking for bugs. Although what she was doing was deemed very important, at least by her standards, her post was abandoned quickly at the call. Should she get her mom? Warily she glanced back at the den, deciding her mom would be happier if she let her sleep, something she seemed to like doing. Her siblings might want to go too, right? She'd lost track of where they were, and though she wanted them to come if they wanted... well, she wasn't going to drag them all the way across the world to meet their dad if they didn't want to go.

As she headed that direction, she lifted her head to let loose a call for her siblings to join her. Just in case, she told herself with a nod as she went. Shaking as much dirt from her coat as possible, she hurried along, moving into a full-blown sprint as she rushed across the plains. Hopefully he dad would like her! Apparently she looked a bit like him, with her tusks, so she wasn't all that concerned about him not liking her. And she was even less concerned about not liking him. Of course she'd love him. He was her dad, after all!

By the time she reached where he'd called from, she was panting hard, her little chest heaving up and down. Not that she was all that little anymore. Kaija was already growing fast, and her tusks were extending past her jaw, not completely unlike her father's. "Dad?!" Her bright violet gaze was transfixed on him as she closed the distance between them, grinning from ear to ear.