Blacktail Deer Plateau Family matters

their lives had changed in ways vesper did not quite understand; the pack of children were led away from the island that had been her entire world. she had fought it, stubbornly, for a time— had even attempted to find her way back to it all on her own, before father had found her and brought her back to the rest by the scruff of her neck.

after that, she more or less accepted that this was home, now. not a place, but father and mother and her siblings. and so vesper resumed her role as the older, protective sibling— stoic like father, warm in her own way. she did not fret about blueberry quite so much anymore, and often when the others played, it was vesper that remained at the outskirts. she was the supervisor, the encourager, but she did not often play directly unless she was attempting to put an end to rough-housing.

play, vesper encouraged blueberry, giving her pale sister's haunch a nudge. that seemed to be the confidence boost the youngest of them needed, and when she joined peregrine's game of tugging, vesper split away to join mou.

gingerly, she planted her front toes on his chest to lick at his chin, tail lowered. she had never seen him so angry as when he had found and brought her back to the group, and though he had not unfairly punished her, vesper still felt a need to make amends. the experience had taught her that she never wanted to see him like that again— to lose her father's love would be devastating.