Oak Tree Bend by and by

She felt a chill roll over her body and glanced up fast enough to catch a glimpse of Kyna's mother and her icy stare. For a moment Sahalie shrunk, still moving towards Spieden, unsure if her stance on the issue had inflamed the higher ranking adult. Suddenly she very much regretted speaking so boldly. But where the gaze should have hardened and the silvered tail should have rose there was only a strange, benevolent emotion looking down at her. Sahalie nearly froze, unsure of what to make of it. Sure, Sahalie was rarely disciplined and had grown quite bold in the absence of any rules to gate in her gregarious personality, and often she felt as if the adults sent her mixed messages. Was it alright: alright to speak like this, to stand with her body in this way? It wasn't always alright when the adults did it. Sahalie had always been treated differently, and she didn't always get it. If no one intended to stop her now, though, she decided it would be okay to go and comfort Spieden.

There was that word, "fine" again. It was like their slogan. The girl felt herself silently resolving to avoid the word. At least the tone seemed genuine even if the statement still, for what ever reason, felt very wrong and very odd. Again, Aponi looked towards Spieden, solidifying a pattern. A promise was a promise, though, and Sahalie took no one for a liar. Hesitantly, the girl peeled herself away from her caretaker's thigh and nodded, her lips pursed in a small, unhappy frown as she relented and acknowledged the leaving of Kyna's mother.

Her face tightened several degrees: Spieden was speaking as much truth as she dared, and this truth was so small that Sahalie knew it already. Spring was well underway and "strange things" was an observation only an unconscious wolf could have missed. And the second half barely made any sense. How she was able? Sahalie just assumed that any female wolf could have taken care of her, but Spieden had chosen, had asked to. Her frown only deepened, feeling that if only this one small thing made sense that the rest of the mystery would become clear. "It's fi--alright," she sighed, pushing her muzzle in deeper, "I'll figure it out eventually." She tried to keep the disappointment out of her voice but somehow it still seeped in.  

(This post was last modified: May 03, 2016, 02:34 AM by Sahalie.)