Mabel had been doing her best to avoid her younger siblings as much as she possibly could. But, she was a yearling and that meant as much as her job was practicing adult roles she also took the brunt of the babysitting when her parents weren’t around. Even when she was require to watch them though the ivory teen usually did so from a distance, watching them but hardly interacting with them.

So when her mother had requested that she come and watch Kisina while she went off to do whatever it was that alphas do Mabel had huffed but agreed. From a patch of long grass she lounged, lazily watching the tawny pup chase after a vole and practically bored to death. How could she think that was exciting? It was just a tiny vole and she wasn’t even really playing with it she was just following it.

It was the growl that made the creamy yearling perk up a little, glancing over to make sure nothing had happened to her younger sister. Seeing that she had her nose half stuck into the vole hole Mabel rolled her eyes, ”Just dig it out.” The hole couldn’t possibly be that deep and then she would have her toy back.

Kisina rolled her eyes at her and the yearling huffed quietly to herself. She might have found the act funny had it been someone else who had copied her eye roll but she was pretty firmly planted in her dislike of her siblings. No cutesy copy-cat eye rolling could change that. Instead, she hypocritically found it rather insulting and settled her head back onto her paws and closed her eyes. Surely the pup would yell if something bad as happening, and ‘watching’ Kisina didn’t mean keeping her eyes on her every second until Mom came back.

As such, she had her eyes closed when Kisina gained her prize and had ignored the sounds of puppy-footsteps as it came towards her. Then it was suddenly upon her and Mabel’s eyes opened in panic. The pup was sprinting towards her with a flailing vole dangling from her mouth. Jumping to her paws, ”Woah, woah, woah.” Backpedaling a little she eyed Kisina and the rodent over, ”Okay cool, now go back to playing with it over there.” And away from her, that was the important part.