Comprehension
She listened silently to the large wolf, talking about how everyone gets a mother but you could have more than one, that new ones came along when others were lost. So it was true, her thoughts weren't lying when they said her mother was gone. Anaeia looked to her paws with watery eyes, shaking her head lightly. “Lost...” She muttered to herself, always thinking her mother was smart and such a thing couldn't happen to her. They moved so much that maybe the woman got confused and couldn't make her way back to her child, she didn't fully abandon her. But then, why would this lady want her? Did she want a pup to look after?
Slowly the child looked up to Amachi, hesitantly nodding her head when the bad people and her mother were mentioned. It was true she guessed, if her mother was not a bad person then there had to be other good people out there like her. Right? You just had to look for them, but that would be a task for another day, the girl was not looking forward to going out and trying to find good people at this time. She would just keep in mind that there were wolves out there, and other creatures that had some nice bits in them.
Little ears perked up at the question of her name, shying away as Amachi went on to explain how she couldn't be Ana's mother but she promised to take care of her. She also explained what a pack was, a family of wolves who worked together but weren't related. But... then how were they a family? It didn't make sense to her. If the child gave the woman a chance, she could prove it, to trust her... It sounded nice to the girl, to be with a mother again, but the idea of being around other wolves she didn't know was scary. “Anaeia.” She spoke quietly, looking back to Amachi with her head lowered.
It wasn't much but Amachi had made some progress with Anaeia, getting her to reveal a name for now. It would take some time to get the child used to her new surroundings, but in the end, she would learn to love Amachi as if she had been her birth mother. "normal. talk. think. you. |