& we will crawl, we will

She was warm, and for that, Ivy was grateful. His family was loving, sure, but they weren't really the tender sort. It was mostly Ivy and Lotus clinging together for everything that they were, and everything that they could be. Other than that... yeah. Their brand of love was just different. Maybe that was one of the reasons he missed his mother's affection so much... probably. Though thoughts of her often weighed heavily on his mind, heavy isn't something that a pup often has much time to dwell on.

"Yes, um, yes please," right, he'd catch himself on the whole manners thing. Ivy considered himself to be one of his better-mannered siblings, wouldn't want to let the version of himself that he'd built in his head to go to waste. Still, the boy didn't want to be a kiss ass like his brother Kore. Polite, but he wasn't going to try to score any points with anyone for it.

"Herbs!" His eyes lit up. Ivy would have new herbs to learn about before Ulmaria did, and that was way too exciting for him. "My uncle taught us about dandelions and what they do, but that's the only one," he sat up straighter. "I wanna learn about what more of them do, and how to find them, and what they look like, and all that stuff." The boy nodded excitedly. It was more animated than he'd typically get, but he'd learn some new things before any of his siblings, and he could hold that over them... and then teach them as soon as he was done gloating just a little. That, and he could keep Lotus patched up better, the more that he knew. A win-win.

"Ivy"