Taddeo was deep in sleep, the warm arms of dream wrapped tightly around his small form. Eyes would dart frantically behind closed eyes and his light brown paws would twitch from time to time. In this state he was unaware of the scene playing out around him, his sister?s daring escape from the den, his mother stirring. That was until Emer had jumped suddenly to her paws, jostling him and his remaining sister. The poor boy was awoken rather suddenly, and unpleasantly. His head which had been resting gently upon his mother hit the ground. It was lucky he wasn?t quite so far from the earth to begin with.
The boy was dazed for a moment, the world spinning around him, and his eyes, which had flown open in the sudden shift, screwed shut while he waited for the world to settle itself. He vaguely heard his mother call for Signy and he groaned; the earth finally coming to a stop. Lids lifted to reveal yellow orbs and he squinted at his mother.
Still dazed he shakily rose to his paws, shook the dirt from his mud brown pelt and trotted after his mother. Taddeo hesitated only a moment at the entrance to the den but as he cast his gaze about the den, he quickly realized that Signy was indeed gone, and if she got to leave then so did he!
Bounding through the entrance he found himself in a vast world, one even his impressive imagination could not have dreamed up. He happily dashed towards his mother, stopping just a few paces away from her and scanning the horizon.
Suddenly flattening his body to the ground, he stuck his tail into the air and pretended to struggle against the earth. "Mamma help! I am being sucked into the sky!" He exclaimed loudly, trying his best to hide the giggling. The boy was unaware that his mother might be distressed, unaware that anything at all might be wrong.
"Speech"
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