Birthday Beach Bash

Ari might not have known about the birthday party being planned, but she did know it was their birthday and being in the mood to tease and torment her littermates Aris had spent hours carefully constructing birchbark cones that she'd painted with bright colors and wild patterns (getting a great deal of the paint on herself, but luckily it would be easily washed) and primed the wide bottoms of the cones with sticky resin glue (which also got all over her, and was not easy to wash off). She had made a smaller one for Tansy too but the cat had informed her in no uncertain terms that if she tried sticking that thing on her head, she'd claw her in the face. Obviously the idea didn't appeal so she abandoned that idea. Let the wet blanket have her way. She'd just track down and ambush her littermates one by one.

Luckily she didn't have to, because her dad saved her the trouble and called out to summon them all. Also luckily, the paint was dry (and the glue still sticky, she found to her chagrin when she touched it to check and immediately after started sticking to everything) so she gathered the birchbark cones and set off jauntily for the beach.

She didn't bother giving her siblings a chance to react to her presence, instead just popping up behind Briar and Ophelia (and Briar's boyfriend but she hadn't made him a special one, it wasn't his birthday) and squishing their party hats down on top her sister's heads before ninja rolling away, sprinting after Goss (bouncing up in Kotorii's face on the way) to stick their party hats to their head before triumphantly slamming her own down at a roguish angle. Then she tossed out the rest of the party hats to scatter them where everyone could wear one (except wet blanket cats). Now it was a party.