Little lords and ladies

Thorn hadn’t slept much, having known what tomorrow would bring but he did get a few hours of rest.  He had woken up to see Dusk at the door waiting eagerly for the door to be open.  It was like the gateway to an entirely new large realm.  Thorn understood Dusk’s excitement, his heart ached to see that door open as well.  

Since dad hadn’t let them out as soon as their eyes had opened Thorn had helped himself to crawl under the large bed, his paws played with the curtain for a moment, trying to ignore the gums demanding he chews on something to soothe them. Jerking his head over he chomped a couple of times on the bedpost with his pointy puppy teeth, then attacked the curtain once more.  Dad then said the all-important words, ‘it was time’!

Thorn shoved himself back out from under the bed, a thrilled look at dad as Thorn ran up to sit pressed up next to Dusk.  He was sitting still, but his muscles were tense, rolling his head up and eyes back to watch dad coming up.  It took dad forever to move!  At least when Thorn was in a hurry, still he waited as patiently as the blue pup could manage.  Thorn soaked in dad’s words, nodding, “yes daddy.”

The door was opened.  Dusk’s howl was thrilling and Thorn yipped excitedly and ran out after her, mouth split open in a wide grin following her with boundless joy.  Then the stairs came into sight and he almost slowed down remembering dad’s rules but Dusk was still running! Thorn growled as he pushed himself forward with an effort to go faster to get closer to Dusk.  Once close enough he stretched out his neck, chomping into Dusk’s tail to try and stop them both from going forward.  With her tail in his mouth, his words came out a bit slurred, “Dad said..”

That was as much of the warning as he got out.  Dusk had already been too close to the stairs and Thorns lunging in for the surprise grab hadn’t helped matters.  Refusing to give up his hold two pups ended up going down the stairs.  It was true neither one ran down the stairs either, so they did not disobey dad.  The two tripped and fell and rolled from the top bottom of the stairs.  After the first two steps, Thorn had klonked his muzzle and lost his hold on his sister's tail.  She was free.

At the bottom Thorn would land with a slide, butt having reached the bottom before his face so that he was looking back along the path they rolled.  The idea of going after his sister swam in his mind even as he worked at getting rid of the dizzies from the roll. After a few second recalling to see what had become of his sister.

(got ok to pp dusk and him tumbling)

"Thorn Carpathius"