White Fir Notch The Song of Us

Gent's tail wagged happily behind him as his children returned his affections, about as quickly as it ever had before. Ryker, still more timid than his sisters, did not go unnoticed by the mirthful father. After giving Lucia and Aleris their due, he swept over them to nudge Ryker lovingly, but his muzzle didn't reach him before the boy uttered something that made his ears prick upward. The trio were at the age where they were mimicking sounds, trying to replicate language. The girls had managed a select few very small words, but Ryker had yet to say his first.

"... Spring?" he asked, watching his son intently. That was what he'd been trying to copy, wasn't it? Swing was a word in itself, but so was 'dada' and it didn't really mean as much when it was a random happenstance. This word be an actual, intentional word that the child would be able to communicate with. It hopefully, it would be a slippery slope. Once he had one word down, he'd just keep learning more alongside his sisters, just as Minka's litter had. His pale gaze flickered briefly to his wife before focusing on Ryker once again as he willed him to try again.

You've got this.

(This post was last modified: Jan 15, 2017, 07:05 PM by Gent.)

OOC: Skipping aleris because she's just playing/watching c: - thinking we do maybe one more round?

It was pure joy to watch her mate interact with the children, and there was a boundless happiness to seeing his swiftly fluttering tail as they each greeted the man in their own mirthful way. Her sunshine gaze swept over the lot of them, but landed on @Ryker with an astonishment nearly equaled by Gent's. The little boy's tiny, unpracticed voice had seemingly tried mimicking that of his mother. Now, the children had been toying with simple speech – Lucia herself having ushered them out earlier with a string of “go”s – but that was as far as any of them had really progressed. 

Raela's orange ears flicked forward as she gazed down. Before any reply of her own had been uttered, the Notch King was repeating what it had sounded like their only son was trying to say. In the interest of not overloading the pup, Raela refrained from speaking it again, or saying anything else until she saw what reaction Ryker would have. The vivid eagerness in her partner's eyes as they came to rest intertwined with hers before slipping back to their child only made the Queen's tail wiggle faster. These were their creations; the very living symbols of their love and their new start, and they made him so incredibly happy.

That they could share in this feeling made it all the sweeter.