Puppy Map

Thorn had waited for his aunt relatively patiently.  Relatively patiently included wandering about, sniffing every corner of every wall and every flower on every bush.  A fallen leaf had been chased as it blew on the wind and once caught torn in half.

When Ash showed up and put the map down, Thorn watched her draw with rapt attention.  A paper took on life as she drew lines and explained what they symbolized.  Thorn's imagination came to life as Ash explained it.  Thorn didn’t know all of their lands well so he put a paw on the line she had labeled as the castle, “I can draw the castle.  I’ve been all over it!”  

Thorn carefully picked up one of the pieces of charcoal in his mouth with a red flower wrapped about it.  At first, he tried drawing while holding it in his teeth, head tilted sideways but what should have been a straight line curved all about.  Woops!

Thorn looked at the curvy line with a narrow gaze wanting it gone.  Lying down he pulled the charcoal piece between his two paws, cautiously inching it along that way.  Which way would be easiest?  He could make lines quickly with it in his mouth it felt like, but he hadn’t had control.  Between his paws, he kept the charcoal straighter but it was really slow moving.

His first intentional motion was making circles along the outer line that marked the castle, “these are the towers.” The first he drew Thorn decided was too small, so he made the next one larger and it was clearly too big.  So he made another that was somewhat in between the sizes.  His circles also were wobbly but you could tell the attempt for a circle was there. "Whatcha think?"

"Thorn Carpathius"