Just a little song and dance

With all of the doom, gloom, and mess that had followed the awful flood, Wynter of course went looking for any way to help. She obviously did what she could to clean up around all of the messed up dens and common areas in the Col and picked up stuff that had washed out into the trees, but there was only so much clean up she could stand. It was dirty and gross and stinky and boring! She went along with it without complaint, of course, because that's what needed to be done, but today she wanted to find some way to help that wasn't just cleaning and collecting ruined things. There was lots of hunting going on to replenish their messed up food stores and furs, but she was hardly big enough to catch anything beyond a rabbit if she was really, really lucky and that wouldn't help much. She wasn't interested enough in the healing her mom did to remember how to help there very well. So what could she do that would help and still be supportive to everyone?

Well, everyone seemed really upset and grumpy these days so maybe she could be a distraction! At least that's what her intent was as she started looking around for things to craft with started dreaming up a little show for everyone. She liked to sing little tunes to herself whenever she was working on something and what was a performance if not just singing those songs louder so everyone could hear them? She started with some long strips of bark that had peeled off of some of the trees near the entrance of the Col during the initial rush of flood water and she pulled them over to the clearing near her family's home to start constructing a little backdrop for her performance. She broke it into pieces that she could stand up in a row behind her like a screen. Luckily with the snow that was on the ground it was easy enough to stick them down into the snow and make them stand upright. Then she rushed inside and gathered up the paints she had begged her father for when she had been interested in making art. She had since abandoned her drawings and paintings, but they would certainly come in handy now!

Bringing them out to her make shift backdrop, she started using her paws to paint all kinds of flowers, plants, a rainbow and other happy looking things across it. She even snuck in a little rabbit behind one of the bushes. This took her a while, but she used that time to start working out what kind of song she wanted to sing. She wanted it to be happy and encouraging, but not obnoxious and silly. By the time she had her pieces of bark painted with a spring time scene–which did admittedly look a little silly among all the snow–she did at least have the general idea of a song. After cleaning up her paws, she started practicing her song in earnest and even coming up with a few little dance steps to go along with it. In the middle of her practicing she heard the heavier foot falls of her father approaching and she grinned as she ran over to catch him, beaming up at him as she bounced in place a bit with her excitement. "Dad! Come watch my show and tell me what you think, okay?" she requested in a way that made it pretty clear that she wasn't really asking and instead just expected him to follow along.

WC: 600

"Wynter Fatalis"