Safe Boundaries
04-16-2014, 11:11 AM
Walk | Talk | Think The kids seemed to be settling in nicely to their new home. Rune was glad; they might not have spent a whole lot of time on Nephilim Island but it had been where they were born and was in essence everything they knew. It would have made sense for them to express some sort of homesickness, and in a way Rune had anticipated it. But they were adjusting well, exploring and giving their parents a challenge as they tried to keep up with all three of them. It surprised him just how strong they were, how adaptable they could be to the changes imposed on them by their parents. It made him proud and eager to see how they might be when they were older, what sort of wolves they would grow into. But with the move had come about a new trait that, while in itself was good, was a sore point of worry for Rune: independence. Already the tenuous safety that he had been working hard to ensure had been tested, severely so, and it was only by sheer luck Eirik had managed to get away from the large snow leopard, a story his son was a little too keen on bragging about. There was no way to prevent others from wandering upon their family completely as things were - Mount Volkan was unclaimed territory after all - and the only way he could see that might clearly remedy the situation was to move yet again into some other pack lands. They had only just made it to his old home, however. It was too soon for him to consider rehoming them a second time so quickly after the first. Not to mention there was no pack, at least to his knowledge, that appealed to both what he and Alamea wanted and desired for their family. As a means to try and settle the children's need to explore and his own need to guard them the young father had decided to take them on a much needed tour of the mountain so that they could learn where the safe boundaries were within and around the one he had set up for them. It was still relatively early in the morning, well before midday, and all the better. He wanted to be sure they had enough time for their wandering and still accommodate whatever crazy shenanigans the kids would get into along the way. "Are we about ready?" he asked of the group at large, sitting within the open space just outside their den. Boy were they getting big. Before long he would need to expand the den, or consider carving them out their own. A smile began to grow across his face as he watched them expectantly, adding after a moment, "Let's not keep the mountain waiting." |
