AND THEN THE GROUND SHOOK AND BEHOLD, A GREAT CREATURE AROSE

Sister always talks of things that I do not quite understand but I am always willing to lend an ear to her. I think my mind must be different for hers because she speaks of worlds vastly different than ours. The mountains have encased me since birth, not that I remember much of that, and I find their height comforting. It is almost like being in one giant den where nothing can harm us. I do not know much of the world beyond the mountains and I have a hard time grasping the concepts that mother puts before me. Trees so large that the sky can no longer be seen through them? Plains so long that you could see endless horizon? It all sounded so.. foreign. I wasn't sure I even wanted to go for I felt a certain twinge of upset at the idea, my paws firmly rooted to the mountain soil. Kirsi is more ambitious than me in regards of traveling but I did not want that. I had watched as Sleekwing patrolled the borders and often snuck out of the den to sit in my favorite spot atop a small outcropping of rock just in hopes that I could spy him go by. I wanted to be like him, I decided. I wanted to be like him and to be like those ice bears momma calls me. I would if it was the last thing I did.

My mind has tumbled onto these thoughts while I laid on the ground with my head turned towards Kirsi, her words drowned out by such thinking and I felt a moment of embarrassment at ignoring her. It wasn't that I meant to but sometimes it just happened because I wasn't so into the strange stuff she was saying. Not to say I didn't love my sister, I felt an intense bond with her and mother. The call that echos through the mountains has my tan-tipped ears swiveling until mother comes out with a knowing sort of grin on her face. She knew this caller - of that I was certain. I can't help the way my tan tail begins to wag in a sudden burst of excitement at the idea of finding out more about mother and Kirsi is just as excited.

I leap up and reach out so that I bite at Kirsi's neck in a rough boy manner, playful of course, before I dart down the path and often move so that my shoulder pushes against Kirsi in a silent instinct to tell her to stay behind me. I can't help that need that makes me want to protect them, pup or not, and I don't fully understand it. Still, she manages to get before me and bursts from a bush and I follow quickly with a low puppy growl of discontent until I spy the brilliant white figure who looks an awful lot like my mother and the reddish girl at her side who is larger than me.

I blink at them for a minute while Kiris chirps in her usual happy manner, but I am quiet, prone to such moods that are alike to my sire although I do not know who he is. "Hello. She looks like my mom," he says after his mother introduces them, speaking directly to Natu although it sounds as if he talks to Ailith or some stranger. So this was the great Aunt that Ailith spoke of and his eyes drop to his 'cousin' of sorts, eying her curiously as he sees the puckered look on her face as she watches them with something akin to excitement and maybe jealousy?

CADWAN - AILITH X SHIVERSHADE - ZERO - SPIRANE