the hardest lessons

While he was dangling there, half stuck and attempting to get a paw back under him again, his sister appeared. He startled at the sound of her voice, looking up and then scowling. Selene had she come to show him up, and prove how easy this complicated course was? Just like she had broken his fish. Sometimes, he hated how comfortable Selene was in her own body.

But as he watched, she struggled to get up a post and failed. But probably only because she had started on a tall one. “Dad set them up, said I hate to learn how to complete it by the end of the week.” He said, his voice a little sullen. Both at his dads proclamation, and worry that his sister would prove once again how much better she was.

He scrambled harder against the post, managing now to get a paw under himself and leverage his stomach back off the flat surface. Now he just needed to wiggle the rest of his paws under there…


"Citadel Fatalis"