stars on the horizon (solstice)

*Shtiya* · 10-11-2014, 05:27 PM

Man, were they ever gonna be done walking? They'd walked and walked and walked and then...they walked some more! He was tired of walking! Everything was interesting and there was so much to see, but his paws hurt. He wanted a nap. Shtiya wanted his stuff too. It made him sad that he had to leave it all behind. Well, he didn't have to leave everything behind. At the start of the journey, the boy had stuffed his cheeks full of trinkets. More than once he'd nearly swallowed one of the hooves he was carrying. Bit by bit, trinket by trinket, the pup was forced to discard his treasures. Each loss had made him sad, but his mouth hurt and he hated not being able to ask questions. Now the only treasure he had left was a short piece of chain he'd recently found. It was only five lengths long and more rust than metal, but it so unusual and unnatural that the little boy fell in love with it immediately.

They stopped walking. They stopped walking!! His momma licked the top of his head and he briefly turned gleeful eyes up to look at her before casting them across their surroundings. Where were they, exactly?

"Mah-" Bleh, the treasure! He spit it out and the floodgates opened. "Momma! Where are we? Whatcha doing? Who ya talking to?" A brute arrived and the boy, having never met a stranger, regarded him with a curious expression before answering him as if the older wolf's question had been for him instead of his mother. "I dunno, my momma brought me. What are we doing on his broaders...broroders...br..brodders? BRORDERS." Why was it such a hard word? Shtiya's ears went back and he took a deep breath before trying again. "...Borders?" Yes!! Pleased with himself, the boy beamed up at the grown ups. It was then that another wolf arrived and Shtiya, without missing a beat, jumped into the conversation once more. "Hi lady! I'm Shtiya! What's a re-gee uh...a regeema? Regee...Reg-reg-Regime!"

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