Learning Pains

After spending a day exploring, he climbed back up to their den. Feeling exhausted mentally and physically. He had to take a lot more time to navigate his paws then his siblings and it wasn't fair! He was slow and clumsy, and he felt he would never be as fast as the second slowest of them.

He found his mother sitting on the balcony overlooking the pack and collapsed beside her. Smaller than her still, through his paws were an unsubtle shout that it wouldn't be long before he outgrew her.

He sniffed, shocked to realise he was close to tears. He buried his head in his mum's coat, unaware that the sharp little nibs on his forehead weren't comfortable. “It's not fair! They don't have stupid paws. Selene is like the wind, and I can't even walk in a straight line.” He sniffed into her coat.


"Citadel""Ignita"