Little Goat Mountain New Route

Her ears clamped against her skull as Valette spoke, feeling very much guilty.  Her paws urged to to travel and roam and explore, and the potential loss of Valette had motivated her to follow. For all thoughts and purposes, the woman was very much her mother in the way that Steady was her father, and she thought no different. Witchhazel had been forgotten, as had been her mother, no more than shadows in her mind. There was merely Valette and Steady and Nikai and the friends that were those of Easthollow, and no other. And she could not bear any of them leaving. 

Even thiugh Valette's suggestion had her ears perk, sadness still reigned as the forefront of expression. "But...Ill miss you." She said, but it occurred to her quickly following that should she accompany her, she would miss the rest of her family. She sighed heavily, asking then, "Will you be gone long?"