Hideaway Strath when we arrive, sons and daughters

It is not often that their mother is away from them and Mallaidh never likes it. She’s a little more squirmy and disruptive for the ones that watch her but she rarely causes too much trouble. Today, however, feels longer than ever and the girl feels a little more antsy than usual. She wobbles around the den, stumbling over any little thing that gets in her way, and mimics the equivalent of pacing back and forth. She isn’t perfect on her legs by any stretch of meaning but each day is easier than the last and she’s becoming rather mobile.
 
Her focus is disrupted when she hears the familiar call of her mother’s coming home. Her heart beats heavily in her chest and she spins, spins out, recovers, and then spins forward again, this time with a gust out of the den. Both Eirlys and Roarke have beaten her outside but they will not beat her to Lotte. She surges forward, unaware of who has beaten her to her mother, and careless of the destruction she leaves in her wake, and crashes into the closest part she can reach.