we're off to see the wizard

His answer was quiet, and she was delighted to learn that he did actually live in this magical place. How cool must that be? Her tail gave a small wag of delight with this knowledge. When he mentioned his previous home, she blinked at him. Where was the North? What was up there? Blinking up at him in awe, she practically began to ooze curiosity. "What is the North like?" She questioned, tilting her head to one side. Maybe one day she could go there, and maybe Bacchus would go with her! When she was bigger, and walking so far would be easy as pie, she would come and find him, yes, and he could show her the North! But before that, he would have to show her the pretty mangroves. Tomorrow could be a good day for that, to come back and see if the bigger boy would show her the mangroves. She wasn't busy tomorrow, was she? No, probably not. But it would be better to visit new places first, right? To see what it was like closer to home, and see new things.

She wanted to see everything she could before she revisited places she'd seen before, because that would be more fun, right? But, she hadn't actually been inside the mangroves. She was just on the borders of the pack, which was just a place with a lot of wolves, in her head. Lots of wolves meant nothing to her, save for crowds and more strangers than she liked to think about. Laws and rules did not occur to her, nor did order. "Do you like it better here, or in the North?" She would inquire after her thoughts ceased, because that would tell her more than his stories, probably. If he liked it better here, maybe wasting her time in the North would be just silly. Wasting time when you were big just didn't seem like a thing to do.