Lake Day

As they made their way closer to the lake, she let Fia go ahead of her a bit and she smiled while she watched her youngest daughter approach the edge of the water and tap it lightly with her crimson dipped paw. She always loved seeing her children explore the world around them and experience things for the first time. She stepped up beside Fia and reached out her own, larger paw beside her daughter's, lightly touching the surface as well and chuckling softly as the rings of the ripples across the surface connected with Fia's and made the tiny waves it created intermingle. She loved all of her children dearly, but she had to admit that it was far more relaxed and enjoyable taking Fia out to explore than it ever had been with Saracyn. The two red-marked children of their family couldn't have been more different in that regard and she didn't fear that Fia might run off into some sort of danger if she turned her back for a moment.

When Fia asked where the cat tails were, Manea turned her gaze back down to her little girl and nodded toward a thick patch of reeds and plant life off to the side a short distance from them. "Right over here, darling. There's lots of cat tails around here." Leading the way, she brought Fia over to the thicket and pulled some of the other kinds of reeds out of the way to reveal a whole cluster of cat tail plants. She plucked one with a quick snap of its stem, and settled back on her haunches as she gave Fia a grin. "Watch this." Using one of her claws, she ran it down the length of the thicker, dark brown end of the cat tail and caused the fluffy seeds contained within to explode outward in a puff ball of sorts, making her chuckle as she revealed a little trick of the plant to her daughter. "You don't want to try biting down on one of these things unless you want to get a mouth full of this stuff," she warned with a bit of humor to her tone. She couldn't imagine Fia trying something like that, but her brother on the other hand...

"Manea Mendacium"