Piccolo uccello con l'ala spezzata

Starling was very much caught off guard by his father springing out of the grass and scooping him up. They spun, with a chorus of childish laughs, through the grasses, Starling's little body pressed close to his father. He would giggle, hiccuping and squeeling as they circled before his father landed flat on his back, Starling still secured to his chest. Shaking with giggles, he would reach a paw up to bat Bass' cheek. "Padre~" He sung out, in a mock annoyed term before he was nudged off his chest. With an awkward leap he'd jump, but landed rather unsteadily onto the ground beside him. He blinked as Bass stood, shook out and sat down, and Starling would quickly wrack his brain, trying to remember why he had been looking for Bass in the first place. With a click of his tongue he'd turn large blue eyes and the largest of smiles back up to his father, laughing. "I hadn't seen you in a-a while!" He said happily, his stuttering a lot better around his family. It was obviously nerves that had his tongue skipping over the beats, his brain rushing far too fast for his vocals to keep up. "Silete Persi! I missed you!" He said easily. It seemed Italian was something he rarely stuttered, and infact he was rather proud of how quickly he managed to latch onto the language. He would often as the translation for many words, and it only took a few repeatings before he managed to put it into his vocabulary. He wasn't nearly at the level to produce full sentances yet, but that didn't mean he didn't try! "I was h-hoping everything...was good. 'Cause it's....b-been a while." His smile fell then as he shook his head. He didn't mean to say Bass had been rather absent, just that their paths hadn't crossed much lately, even if something like that was still a little hard for a child like him to understand. "I was hoping for...more lessons. Italian.Or something." He may be shy, constantly wracked with nerves, but Starling was rather bright. Perhaps he couldn't fight and he often tripped over his own paws, but that didn't mean he wasn't very intelligent. He just needed a more mental field than purely physical.