The Sunspire cause I would die to make you mine, bleed me dry each and every time

@Okeanos

She had found the most wonderful leaf. It bobbed down low from a thin sapling whose uniquely striped bark might have caught her eye too if she was not so enamored with the leaf. It was broader than her own slim head, and if she knew what a goose was she would have said that it was shaped like a goose's foot. Ohhh. Remi fawned over it, lifting up on her hind paws to rub her head against it and sniff at it. He he he! It was soft and smooth — she closed her eyes every time it caressed her snout and cheeks.

She had to have this leaf. With a nimble leap she hopped up and gathered it gently as she could in her mouth. Rrrr! Rr! Rr! Rrrrrr! She wrestled with it, trying not to tear it but trying to separate it from its branch. It popped lose suddenly, and the small silver girl stumbled back onto her butt with an oof. Remi giggled. It was hers! Her tail whirled behind her as she trotted along, proudly carrying the leaf aloft as she looked around for someone she could show it off to.

his life remains relatively stable post-den-move, busying his days with sticking close to ibis or his mamas. the other pups in the den still go largely ignored even as they grow big enough to possibly interact with, mostly 'cause he just hasn't had an opportunity to do so. 

today fate seems to have new plans in store as he comes across the silvery blackthorn, tiny and brandishing some sort of leaf. immediately it makes him think of his special gelman, so okeanos stumbles quickly to the spot he'd dropped it and grabs it, coming back towards her with his tail curled high and wagging. "gelman!" he announces around the (beginning to show signs of its abuse) wing, spitting it on the floor in front of her and pointing with his nose at her leaf. "you, too!"

Remi had been curious but shy of the new pups when they first arrived. But she had quickly warmed up to them and appreciated all the additional company in the den. There was no such thing as a crowd for her.

Her ears perked when she spotted Okeanos. Oooh someone I can show this leaf to! But they fell when he scurried off. Hey! The silver pup quickened her pace to a brisk trot. Hey! Wait up! Why are you leaving! To her delight, he was not gone long, and came back with his own thing which he drops in front of her and gestures toward. Remi grinned around her leaf, tail beating exuberantly. She then put her leaf down and thrust her slim nose under it to flop it towards him before she turned to inspect this gelman of his.

"Gel?" She questioned, nosing at the feathers. They were sort of like her leaf but sort of not. They smelled entirely different too. Like him, but also like their own thing. "OOooohh." She cooed approvingly.

she looks as pleased as him with their shared treasures, earning a happy boof from the sootsprite as she parrots his word. "gelman," okeanos tells her importantly, face a happy little smile, "mine, um, from," he can't remember wraen's name at the moment, though he can conjure her face before him, "fwen."

curiously he looks at her leaf -- her's isn't a gift like his, but she got it herself and he thinks that makes it pretty special, too. "pretty," he voices aloud, pleased by the shape and general leafyness of her leaf, even if secretly he thinks his wing is better. tail wagging, he flops back on his rump and announces, "'m oke-a-no. wha you?"

"Gelman," she repeated carefully, seeking approval as always with an expectant look. It was from a friend he said, and she smiled knowingly. "Special gelman." She hummed and nodded. Gifts from friends and family were always better than gifts you found yourself, according to her.

He liked her leaf. She beamed at him and wiggled her shoulders, pleased that he liked her thing too.

"Oh! Remi!" The silver pup lifted a tiny paw and tapped herself on the chest. "Remi." She repeated. She reached forward then and tapped his chest, and furrowed her brows in concentration as she tried to say his name back to him. "Oke-a-noooo. Aha!"

She bounced back excited, certain she got it right. Immediately she wondered... "Wheres Oke-a-yesss?"

 

he likes her, he decides, although it is not particularly difficult to earn the good-natured boy's approval. he nods and grins as she calls his gelman special and goes on to introduce herself -- and giggles at her joke, flopping onto the earth and wiggling. "dunno! where oke-a-yes?" what's the punchline!!