In the beginning, her mother's response was simply a paw to guide her attention. Talyssa followed the gesture to her eyes to see a slow, lumbering movement of an interesting looking animal. It kinda reminded her of a big, slow squirrel. But instead of a bushy tail, it was big and flat. Best of all, he was dragging a branch towards the big wood pile. Talyssa gasped in delight. "He made the pile?" She asked in wonderment.
Though, as Briar began to explain, she looked upwards momentarily- tilting back her chin to check in with her mother, before finding the strange new creature once more. "Beavers." She muttered quietly, trying out the name for herself. The busy pup cast a glance towards the wood pile- or dam as her mother called it, before excitedly returning her attention to the Beaver and its task. She was vaguely aware of the affectionate tousle of her aware, but was absorbed in her observations. However, at the next release of information, she leaned to her side so she could see her mother's face a little more comfortably as she tried to make sense of the dam being hollow. "How can that be, though? It just looks like ... a pile of sticks. If there was nothing on the inside of it, how does it stand? How does it stop the water?" Talyssa had so many questions, not even beginning to scratch the surface with the ones that had already rolled off her tongue.
Following her mother's gesture once more, her focus returned to the build-up of water on the creek-fed side of the dam. She envisioned a spread of water much larger- like the pond that was described to her. But as she looked around the Aspen forest ... there were so many trees around. The spotted trunked trees went on as far as the eye could see in each direction. It brought on another train of thought. "Would that change the forest?" She asked, wondering what the impact of these beavers would cause on the entire territory.
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