the secret garden

Indy barely spoke and the dainty Duchess was hopping up, eager expression playing over her features as she took on a brilliant idea. The yearling boy had given up wanting to try and find any plant life, he wasn’t sure he could put up with the disappointment he would feel after spending the day searching and coming up empty pawed. The way the star marked girl looked up to him convinced him otherwise. Even if everything really was dead at least the cheerful she wolf would be alongside. Indigo doubted her words, but he didn’t allow the emotion to show on his features. ”We might find something, especially if you’re as lucky as you are cheerful.” Indy smiled softly and returned to his paws, following after her easily.

He might have been watching her more closely than their surroundings, maybe he shouldn’t have been because not so very long after they started Duchess sought his attention. Indy rounded the massive tree and his blue eyes fell on the brilliant petals. His jaw went slack with disbelief and he felt tears welling up in his eyes. He never would have found it were it not for Duchess. Indy very nearly didn’t harvest the flower, if it was tenacious enough to survive now he almost felt bad about plucking the stem.

Unable to help himself Indigo did it, he grasped the flower and despite any usefulness it might have the boy aimed to fasten the stem to Duchess’s dark ear. The flower looked much better decorating the sweet she wolf. Indigo grinned down at her as he pulled away to study his handiwork. ”And lucky.” He said softly with a wink from his red marked eye.