King Elk Forest Legacy

It was not his mother's voice that eventually roused him, but the sound of roughhousing. As his eyes adjusted to the darkness he noticed only his sister beside him, still deep in sleep. Venere and Vidar were gone - presumably, the ones he heard fighting. And mother's voice accompanied theirs.

Vaska thought of staying underground, and he wavered in indecision, before he followed the bulk of his siblings to the world above. Blinking, he squinted until his eyes adjusted to the sun, and he inched his way forward, crawling closer to the scrap but stopping shy of their battlefield, not yet willing to commit himself as more than a spectator, but curious to see their progress.

Maybe soon he would even join in, if they didn't look too rough...