guess I haven't thought small in a while

Within just a few seconds, he could hear her shriek his name with delight. Gold dipped banner sweeping across his heels, he stopped short as he heard her strides across the ground get louder and faster. Grinning from ear to ear, the dark wraith lowered his dainty head in order to greet his smaller sibling better. As she skidded to a halt, flinging a wave of sand into his face, he hacked and coughed for a moment or two. It was up his nose! If his eyes had worked properly, the amount of sand that got stuck in them might have been a problem just now. "Rhiaaaan!" he cried in response, raising the octave to mimic the tone of her vocals. Shaking the sand from the fine fur of his face, he tipped his snout towards her and aimed to nuzzle his snout against her cheek.

"I've been exploring!" he informed her in a gleeful croon. "What about you? I haven't seen any of our siblings since Fireside went under." the warm sand beneath his dark paws billowed out with a soft poof as he dropped onto his haunches to play catch up with his sister.