Northstar Vale It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place

She woke where she slept, curled against @Akavir, her mother's missing presence noticed immediately; and soon after that realization, came another—that her sister was also gone. She yawned and looked around, her face scrunching in confusion. Where could they have gone? Maybe they went to do something fun and hadn't woken her. That thought made her chest tighten with sadness; she would have liked to explore with mom too. 

Oh well. Whatever she had felt about being left out quickly faded—she wasn't the type to hold a grudge or dwell too much on things. Instead, she would find something else to do. She looked over at her sleeping father and then quietly stood and trotted off to find something interesting. 

The days were warm still, not like the chilly nights where she was thankful to have a family to curl up with. Arielle moved slowly without much obvious purpose except for her searching gaze that moved along the ground and the trees around her. When she found a smooth rock the size of her paw, she pounced on it and clasped it between her teeth. Then she found a patch of sun and settled down, dropping the stone and holding it between her paws so that she could chew on it.