we are a family
12-15-2020, 12:21 PM
Fidelias lay under the now-familiar rabbit-flag over the family den with his hind legs kicked out to the side and his forelegs sphynx-like out in front of him and his purple gaze tracked curiously as far as he could see. Movement would sometimes mark a bird, or a small animal, and he'd stop scanning to watch them for a while. Sometimes it was one of his siblings as they explored and played nearby. Behind him he could hear his mom doing... something that he hadn't quite figured out, on the other side of the little hillock that formed their den. She seemed to be cleaning a big circle on the ground, though he couldn't fathom why. Moving sticks and rocks and even trearing out grass to make it dirt. It was odd but then, adults seemed prone to odd things.
He lifted his head when a call rang from the border in a voice he didn't recognize. It seemed to be calling for them though, and both his siblings took off immediately towards the call. Fidelias hesitated, brow knitted, and then twisted to look at his mom, who just waved him on distractedly. Oh, so this was one of those things that she wanted them to learn on their own. All right.
He pushed himself up to his paws and carefully oriented himself towards the call, well behind his siblings as he trotted off after them. He slowed as he passed the rock wall of their territory, certain somehow that they were breaking the rules even with his mother's implied blessing. His eyes traveled over the stranger who his siblings had already found, and narrowed warily as he stepped up next to Kaija. The stranger looked a LOT like Kaija and Arne, with the red fur and the tusks, so this must be the father Justice had told them about. Del didn't have the clearest concept of what a normal family consisted of, though with Aurielle and Red he at least had the general idea that a father was basically the same as a mother, except male. Silently, Fidelias looked the stranger up and down, but found himself tongue-tied in the face of someone he'd never met, but was nonetheless important somehow to them.
He lifted his head when a call rang from the border in a voice he didn't recognize. It seemed to be calling for them though, and both his siblings took off immediately towards the call. Fidelias hesitated, brow knitted, and then twisted to look at his mom, who just waved him on distractedly. Oh, so this was one of those things that she wanted them to learn on their own. All right.
He pushed himself up to his paws and carefully oriented himself towards the call, well behind his siblings as he trotted off after them. He slowed as he passed the rock wall of their territory, certain somehow that they were breaking the rules even with his mother's implied blessing. His eyes traveled over the stranger who his siblings had already found, and narrowed warily as he stepped up next to Kaija. The stranger looked a LOT like Kaija and Arne, with the red fur and the tusks, so this must be the father Justice had told them about. Del didn't have the clearest concept of what a normal family consisted of, though with Aurielle and Red he at least had the general idea that a father was basically the same as a mother, except male. Silently, Fidelias looked the stranger up and down, but found himself tongue-tied in the face of someone he'd never met, but was nonetheless important somehow to them.