The Wonders Of Winter

*Surreal* · 06-02-2013, 08:14 PM

Surreal

She yawned widely and rolled onto her other side, moss scrubbing against her back. Bleary mismatched eyes of blue and gold blinked open, keeping the bleariness a moment before she blinked again and they cleared. Surreal rolled again, coming to her belly and looking around at her sleeping family. The dark shadow of her father wrapped around the white ghost of her mother, and the jumbled tangle of legs and bodies that were her siblings. The little alcove was filled with the sounds of her family breathing. It was warm. It was? It was brighter than usual. Her head turned and she squinted at the alcove opening, toward the light that filtered vaguely through the opening of the cave.

She rose to her paws, delighted at the continuing retreat of her wobbliness, as her body continued to mature. Her legs were longer now, she was steadier on her feet. She could run! Really run! She trotted to the den mouth and stopped, stalk still. Her mismatched eyes widened and her jaw dropped a little. It was weird. The smell was weird. Crisp. Cold. Fresh. New? She levered herself down the stone steps of the rise, still having moments where her bum tried to overbalance and send her tail over nose to the bottom. She didn?t stop to think that she still had trouble getting back up the stairs. This new stuff was too alluring to remember the trivialities of being little.

She sniffed at a pile of the stuff. It smelled great, really. She pushed her nose against it and squeaked, jerking back and snuffing hard, shaking her head lightly. Then she stared at the stuff, It was cold! She turned and looked toward the ravine. The thrill of adventure caught her in the claws. She took off, tail up, having now grown it?s own brush, losing the thin look of a newborn. She came to the end of the ravine, and skidded to a halt, jaw dropped again. Everything was white! Like her mother! Her head swiveled as she gazed around at the white cover of? Stuff. ?They have got to see this!? She squealed softly, then whirled and raced back to the den, fully intending to race up to her sleeping siblings and pouncing them into waking.

That was? Until she reached the stairs. She began to take a leap, and her front end landed on the edge of the first stair, then her still puppyish bum pulled her back to the ground with her weight. She sat at the base of the stairs and looked up. ?Oh bother! She stood up and raised her front end up to hang her paws on the top stair, filled up her lungs and yelled for her siblings. ?Castiel! Gabriel! Arella! Lyriiic! Wake. Up! Come on I have got to show you this!?

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