Moonspear on the move

the small child clambered excitedly alongside his siblings, trilling his eagerness with tiny growls. he had no earthly idea where they were going - only that they were going -  and going fast, according to the rather swift clip his mother adopted. arcturus waffled in the spot, jolted by his sister's tuneless howls (that accompanied the far sweeter baritone of their father) -- and then he sped on on stumpy limbs after his mother.

she was proving hard to keep up with; arcturus was so busy trying to carry her tail in his teeth that he didn't notice vela swiftly descend the scene, nor the male she approached -- it was not until he heard hydra's voice that his ears perked and he abandoned his schemes of tail-grabbing, tottering over to her with a light playfulness in his eyes. had he seen gannet he might have afforded him the same affections, yet at the moment it was only hydra who was held in the boy's adoring attention.