Into the woods we go

Kite, excited about the prospect of climbing trees, missed Vanta’s sadness over her own lack of claws. Instead, she turned to find her sister coming up behind her, happy to take the offered point of going first. “I’ll always catch you” Kite said, voice serious. She knew that her and Vatna were always going to be dealing with resentment and judgement. People doubted them at first glance. They had to stick together, and fend for each other. Kite was just a little better at scrapping than Vanta was, and that meant she had to look out for her sister. She took the job very seriously sometimes.

She watched as Vanta started up the tree, and then followed along behind her. She was a few paces back and didn’t notice what Vanta did. As her sister called out the name of one of their babysitters, she raised her head. A grin formed on her face as she thought how clever they were to find where Bast was hiding. Instead, she saw the gleam of eyes the wrong colour in the trees where Vanta was staring. “Look out!” she called in alarm, scamping with sudden speed up the tree, and as she reached her sister she attempted to vault over the other wolf, to place herself between her sister and harm. Of course, being in a tree made the whole manoeuvre rather difficult.

WC: 238
Total: 1275


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