Motif so easily agreed to Shaye's request, and the little girl felt kinda bad about the little white lie she had told her mother. But... honestly, it was better if her mother didn't end up worrying about her, and besides, nothing bad was going to happen. Motif was just being silly... telling her she couldn't see Rhythm. Rhythm was family, and love, and honestly it would be just fine if she went and saw Rhythm, and if she meant that Rhythm was too busy settling in to see Shaye, well that was silly too because Rhythm always had time to see her. Yes, she was going to go and find her Auntie.
Her mother kissed her forehead, and then Shaye was running off into Abaven, she started to go toward her fathers den first, until Motif was out of sight, then she changed directions and went back to Rhythms den. What she was going to do was hard, and following Rhythms scent from the pack wasn't an easy thing, she got lost and turned around and went half way around Abaven before she finally found a much stronger trail – she found Bass, Rhythm and Motif's scent all together, all coming back and going into Abaven, and she was sure this must be where Rhythm had gone to – because clearly her loving siblings had seen her off and walked her to the new territory. She skipped along outside of Abaven, feeling pretty big and strange going out of Abaven lands, but she also didn't know enough to be afraid.
Following this trail was easier, and she didn't get lost. She found where it led into another pack lands, and she scented the new lands about her strongly. She was raised politly, so she stopped just outside the territory, she could tell where that was because there was a thick smell of the pack before her, and she remembered it being like that when she Motif and Shaye had all gone to Abaven territory, when they had come home from the islands! So she stopped there, raised her head, and she proudly howled for Rhythm, having no doubt in her heart that the lovely woman would be more then happy to see her.
"Speech"
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