With You

Most of them had migrated to this new land with barely a glance at their old home. Few remained but those ever loyal to his father. They would not pledge allegiance to him, so he had grabbed a number of his siblings and left. One who was especially dear to him had been told a specific place to stay within the grasses of the plains. Scorpion would return to her with a gift of a rather large prairie dog. His dear sister Orchid, so delicate and fragile within his mind. She needed his protection, and so he would watch over her and keep her as his own. Just as their father had.?

Brilliant yellow eyes would search for her beautiful form, wondering if she had strayed far from the place he had set her. Only visual stimuli would help him now, the aromatic scent of his catch would cloud his senses. He wouldn't smell her out so easily but maybe it would help to draw her to him. Coiling his haunches in the late light of the evening he would set his gift by his paws. A direct bark would sound from his jaws as he would command a response from his litter mate. Neon gaze searching the expanse for a sign of her pelt.?