Imagination Nation
Honestly winter seemed kind of boring. Everything was all one color, it was cold and hard to get around. Plus, it was all cloudy and sad looking outside. She just wanted to play! Every once in a while she’d shake off more snow as it continued to fall around her and form a little pile on her back. Her fluffy puppy fur kept her warm for the most part, but the longer she stayed out of the den the more the snow was melting on her and seeping through to her skin. She shivered a little and tried not to think about it. If Momma or Uncle Ulric saw her shivering she knew they’d make her go back inside and she definitely didn’t want that!
She started to imagine that the snow was actually covering something else... like the ground underneath had somehow transformed into something fantastical. She grinned at the idea, her little tail brushing against the rock as she tried to decide which was better - a ground made out of fluffy deer pelts or piles of squishy berries. Agrippa giggled and hopped back down into the snow, pretending that she was mashing all these imaginary berries under her feet as she bounced.
Location: Firefly lake |
”Yeah! I’m Agri!” She didn’t like how she couldn’t say the “ppa” part of her name just right so she just skipped it all together. ”What do you wanna play? I was just pretendin’ that the snow was berries and I was smooshing them all! But we can play what ever you wanna play!” She bounced in place while she waited on his answer even though she was already imagining up her own games they could play. Bad guy and the hero, tag, hide and seek, snow fight... It was so much easier to think of stuff to do when she had someone to do them with!
Leonce would not be able to wipe his smile from his face for a while. The pup had agreed to play with him and that was all the joy he needed. Pups were much easier to talk to than those boring adults with their smile-less faces. |