Sun Mote Copse Another summer wasted

Niamh's vision of the warrior was honestly pretty accurate to Maia's own!! Minus the gold, of course.  She was enjoying this telling thoroughly, mostly because Niamh was such a dynamic listener.  It was way better when the one you were telling to showed investment and she definitely felt interested.

They might have!  But giants don't care about wolves or warriors who are smaller than them because they are so huge!  So they kept right on fighting and destroying things.  Of course, this made Senna super mad, because who were they to ignore her and destroy this place for the poor wolves living there?  Even though she's a warrior, she's all about manners and respect.  She had a whole lot of class, since she was a leader.

Somehow she needed to make them leave, but she didn't want to fight them and destroy things even more.  Senna thought and though, and then she got an idea.  So she went around and gathered all of the creatures and wolves that lived in the valley.  It had actually taken her a second to come up with a solution that wasn't fighting, but since she imagined Senna to be a pretty great tactician, it had to be smart.  Sometimes the hardest part of storytelling was figuring out what someone would do in any given situation.

She told them to go to the forests and gather anything that looked uncomfortable.  Thorns, pinecones, needles, prickly plants - all of it!  As much as they could.  They brought her things all night, and as they brought it, Senna began to cover the meadow.  By the time the giants came the next day, most of the comfy grass was hidden beneath a whole bunch of thorns and terrible things.  They could barely walk without stepping on it!  Maia poked at the ground gingerly with a paw to illustrate.  Now they didn't have anything to fight over, so they just left, maybe to find another place they could argue about.  Giants really like to argue.  But the valley was safe, and aside from the boulders thrown everywhere, it was quiet.  The wolves thanked Senna a lot for saving their home, and then she left.

Maia smiled.  It's a cool place, if you want to go see it, yknow, after.  There's all these boulders all around to climb on, but kinda dangerous.  So probably not for kids.  Which was too bad.  If it wasn't so dangerous, she couldn't imagine how much fun it would have been as a pup climbing all up on those rocks.