Phoenix Maplewood Thinking 'bout the last time I saw you smiling

Did ya see my last message? <3

There were some things about Phoenix Maplewood that were classic and familiar, but other things still that were a far cry from what she'd known in her own pack. The Alpha being a scout, for instance, traversing lands around the territory instead of spending all her time within it like Shreya had. She could see sundry benefits to the pack's leader exploring the lands and meeting strangers on the horizon, and it was curious consider how her old pack might've been different if she'd done the same.

Deciding pointedly that she would oblige Saena not for the sake of it or for the joy of telling stories, but for a much-needed distraction for the girl. Clearly the Alpha been cooped up inside with only herself and her adulterous husband's unborn children for company, perhaps tormented by her own emotions. Shreya theorised that distraction was a form of emotional support in such a case, acting much like a gulp of fresh water when all she'd been drinking was sand.

Once upon a time, she began half-ironically, making her bad posture lower and more comfortable, I met a goat with a stutter. She lived on a mountain, and this was late last year so it was a very snowy mountain. She told me and my two companions that she'd lived her whole life wishing her coat was as white as the snow. 'W-w-why', she said. 'Why c-can't I gleam like the snow'. Not only that, but she knew another goat. And that goat had the whitest coat she'd ever seen. So the stuttering goat started a plot to take it as her own...