Swiftcurrent Creek goodbye to you

While both of his brothers --or at least his older one-- where blind to the concerned faces of the visitors of the den and the dark circles dragging down their parent's eyes Maera and Jokull seemed to have unnatural radars implanted in their brains that allowed to pick up on the emotional changes of the Sveijarn's parents.

Still the redhaired baby never thought much of it, it only popped into her mind when it occured but after a few minutes the sound of her father's deep sighs sinked back to the bottom of her mind right next to the things that had slipped through the cracks of her thin attention span. Besides ever since her motor skills had been upgraded and more and more visitors were coming to say hi --when in reality they were actually saying bye-- she had been far too busy playing to worry about the sense of uncertainty that clung to her parent's coat.

As the champion-napper of the litter Maera was hardly disturbed by the movement of her mother when she tried to break free. She didn't mind the moving and the wiggling as long as she was left in peace. Something she hadn't mastered yet was to drown out the sound that threatened to disrupt her dreams. She frowned as Valtyr's moans began to pull her back into lucidity.

Her little eyes fluttered open and inmidiately searched for the figure of her plump brother. "Shh" she hissed flatly as Shadow had done when she had shouted at his face. She didn't know what Val was crying about but she didn't make an effort to find out; as soon as her angry command was thrown at the baby she turned around and cuddled agaisnt Larus.