What Do You Want To Be?

She beamed happily up at her father  when he told her that he’d  do anything to make sure she was the best. Her mother always told her how lucky she was and reminded her to be grateful for all the things they had and she knew this was one of those special things to be thankful for too. She didn’t really have a concept of what it was like to not have these things, but she still believed her mother all the same. "Thank you, Daddy,” she said sweetly, giving a little kiss to the side of his muzzle.

Her mismatched ears perked when he asked if she had been behaving for her mother. "Yes, Daddy!” she replied easily, her little tail wagging. For the most part she definitely wasn’t lying, but she was brushing aside and ignoring all the times that her mother had to correct and scold her for all the trouble she tried to get into and all the threats to tell her father, but usually she was good so that still counted, right?

She looked up over the waves near them and pointed out toward the shore on the other side. "Will you take me over there soon?” she asked, looking back to him with big, blue and pink eyes. She wanted to see what the rest of the world outside of the island was like so bad! Of course she had no idea just how big the world actually was and that the dams and cedar trees she saw in the distance were just the beginning, but she wanted to see it all! "What’s it like out there?”

"Chimera & Rusalka"