10/10/2025, 3:38 PM
they would grow up into silent hunters and skilled trackers, lestan believed. silence in the underbrush was the first way to achieve these things, and by taking their time to enter the bright world, they would learn this.
to demonstrate, he gestured up at the canopy above them, dozens of branches all working in unison to shade the ground below. or perhaps that had not been their attempt; perhaps they were only too old to disengage now.
lestan kissed their mother for the wish of it, smiled into her eyes. he straightened then, standing, lifting a paw to trace the air. he showed them where the trees thickened at their bases as well, where foliage grew closer and closer together at that juncture.
their legs would strengthen, elongate. their minds would sharpen. he and kirain were watching the young become wolves before their very eyes.
i c-can teach you now, in the shadows, to follow scents wh-where the plants are most tangled.
to demonstrate, he gestured up at the canopy above them, dozens of branches all working in unison to shade the ground below. or perhaps that had not been their attempt; perhaps they were only too old to disengage now.
lestan kissed their mother for the wish of it, smiled into her eyes. he straightened then, standing, lifting a paw to trace the air. he showed them where the trees thickened at their bases as well, where foliage grew closer and closer together at that juncture.
wh-what lives in grass and leaves? m-mice. rats. little b-birds. go and see,the mayfair encouraged, motioning their pups toward the cluster of trees in the middle of this copse which shielded them.
their legs would strengthen, elongate. their minds would sharpen. he and kirain were watching the young become wolves before their very eyes.
