White Fir Notch I went to the woods

It was a normal day among the pines of his home as the pale healer weaved his way among the wide trunks of the trees. He’d been leader for quite some time now and felt he was doing a pretty good job filling the role. He was still getting over the grief of losing his son but he still had his other two children and Hawthorne that he cherished very much and tried to spend as much time as he could with them. Winter was on the way however and he worried how the pups would get through it as well as the pack. Emrys had fallen into a routine of constantly checking the caches to make sure they were well stocked. That was his biggest worry after the previous year.

Pale muzzle raised Into the air to take in the scents around him. One that had started to hang on it was the scent of winter, he could feel it wouldn't be long before it was upon him. There was another scent there too, that of his daughters. He could not help but be curious about what she was up to. Little Arwyn, she was a good girl but she seemed to always be up to something. Abandoning that path he had been in Emrys chose to follow his daughters scent and find out exactly what she was up to.

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It was much too good of a day for her to stick around the den when there was so much to be done. She didn't have any idea what those things were but she would know when she found them. The pale puppy waited until bother her parents and brother had gone off to do whatever it was they did and then she had made her move. Like all the times before she'd found her chance and she took it. It was time to have some real fun, she bounded out of the clearing and into the protection of the trees.

The little Myrddin was headed for the border wanting to explore more past it. She had no idea what she would find or who she would run into but that was the exciting part about it. Being so small and her feet awkwardly large she did have some trouble reaching her destination quickly. Arwyn would have like to have made it there fast enough there would be no chance for any of her packmates to catch her. She felt the longer it took the more chances. When she finally saw where the invisible line that separated their home from the rest of the world she quickened her pace.

There was nothing more important to the pale leader than his family and his pack. Knowing that his daughter was out by herself and seeming to be heading for the border he dropped everything to find out. He hurried through the forest of pines following her scent until he finally came upon her but he stopped abruptly. There was a choice to be made here and he wanted to take a moment to think it through.

His first choice was to make his presence known and stop her from doing whatever she was planning. It was probably the choice his mate would like him to make but then Arwyn would be in trouble and possibly feel that she needed to slip away that much more. His other choice was to let her go and keep an eye on her, let her satisfy her curiosity under his watchful eye. There was one other choice...to make his presence known and see if she wouldn't mind her father tagging along. Much how he'd done with Hawthorne, that way she could go where she wanted but then she would be safe.

He finally decided in the last of the choices and stepped into view just as she arrived right on the border. “Hello Arwyn. What do you think you are doing?” He asked with raised brow. He'd always taught his children to speak the truth and he wondered if she would when he'd caught her red pawed.

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The cream pup raced through the trees as fast as her paws would carry her and very surprised that she had yet to trip over them. Ears were flat against her tiny skull and her tail straight out behind her as it felt like she was flying. Soon the border had come into view and the pup was almost certain she was going to make it. Arwyn had only had a half hatched idea that she'd put into motion the second she had her moment but so far so good. Soon she would he exploring all of the things there was to see and smell outside the territory. The excitement grew inside her with each stride she took as her paws ate up the ground beneath her.

And then she heard it, the one thing that could spoil all of her fun in a matter of moments. She stopped before she could cross the border, she couldn't get in trouble for it if she hadn't actually done it. Arwyn already knew that her mother would hear about this and it would be all bad for there. She sighed before turning toward yet father and without hesitation she answered. “Um, I was gonna go explore out there,” she told her father innocently as she looked out across the border. Then she waited for the punishment she was sure to receive. The cream pup didn't really want to be punished.

He felt it was to be expected to catch one or both of his children, even Hawthorne sneaking across the border at some point in their young lives. He supposed had he been a pack wolf when he was a pup he would have done the same. There was something to be said about the unknown and a curious pup. He had taken his course of action in the case of catching Arywn seriously and given it a little of thought. He dismissed the idea of punishing her as he believed it wouldn't teach her anything. So he took a different approach that he believed to be more beneficial to them both.

After asking about what she was doing he waited for her to speak wondering and hoping she would be truthful. To his relief she was and he nodded, “I see and don't you think it would have been better to ask an adult to accompany you?” This time he didn't wait for a response but went on, “You know the rules or else you wouldn't be sneaking off and you know how dangerous it is out there for a young pup such as yourself. The reason we have these rules Arwyn is to keep you safe.” He let that sink in for a moment before going on, “Now that you've been caught if you still would like to go out exploring I would be happy to go with you.”

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Her father always showing up at exactly the wrong moment had caught her just before she could cross the border. She was sure she would be in big trouble for do openly disobeying the rules. She was surprised when her father didn't start yelling at her and giving her some form of punishment. When asked what she had been doing the cream pup had debated telling her father a lie to keep herself out of trouble. She ended up telling the truth, her father would have known she was lying and Arwyn wasn't stupid enough to take a worse punishment because she had lied.

The little Myrddin listened as her father asked about bringing and adult, yes it probably would have been the better option. Arwyn didn't believe an adult would let her do what she wanted so it was best just to go on her own. “Yes father, I'm sure it would have.” the cream pup thought it best to go along with this and not add her thoughts on the matter or her father would he watching her like a hawk. Then her father went into a lecture of the rules and what they were for and she was so bored. She only perked up when he spoke about going with her and knowing she didn't have a choice in the matter if she wanted to go on she agreed with a nod of her head.

The pale leader had never been angry with his daughter for trying to sneak out of the territory. How could he be when it was only natural for her to want to explore beyond the borders? He knew Arwyn was a free spirited girl and he wanted to nurture that in her but at her age she needed to follow the rules. They had been set in place to keep her and her brother safe and after losing Milon he did not want to lose another child. So he'd made it clear once more to the pup how important the rules were. Then he was done, that was all he was going to make her sit through.

It was time she got back to what she was doing and she had agreed that he could go along with her. “Well then you should get back to exploring. I am only here to make sure you don't get yourself into too much trouble,” he told her nudging her cheek. This was the same approach he'd taken with Hawthorne and he felt it was exactly what was needed in such a situation. “You can go anywhere you want to and I will be close by in case you need anything. Just one thing, we should be back before dark or the both of us will be in trouble.”

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The cream pup really wasn't in any mood to listen to a lecture from her father, especially one she'd heard more times than she could count. Her yellow eyes remain on his pale figure but her mind was somewhere else until she had to answer his questions. She was rather disappointed that he was wanting to go with her but there wasn't anything she could do about it so she agreed. She wanted to leave the territory and if having him with her was the only way then that was what she had to do.

The little Myrddin was surprised however when her father explained the capacity in which he would be with her.  She could go there she wanted, “You won't keep me from doing anything?” She asked unable to keep the shock she felt by this revelation out of her tone. With this knowledge she gave her father one last look, “Lets go,” she told him before bounding off across the border.

The pale leader wanted to hear good father to his children but being a first time father it was sometimes hard to know the right way to handle a situation. It would have been easy to send his daughter back to the den and punish her for trying to sneak off. Then she would have been upset with him and would try much harder the next time and maybe even make her excursions more frequent. He felt this time he had made the right decision by asking to accompany her as a shadow in case she needed him. Maybe by going about it in that way she would be more willing to have an adult accompany her in the future.

A smile crossed his dark lips at her question, “Not unless it's something that could get you seriously hurt,” he told her. After all as her father it was his job to protect her but he knew his daughter's curiosity had to also be nurtured. He felt that by allowing her the freedom to explore at will with some supervision he was doing both. “You lead the way,” he instructed when she finally agreed to let him accompany her. She didn't waste anytime in crossing the border and he was right behind her.

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