Nova Peak Long way home

Her words were meant to be reassuring but Relonikiv didn't quite feel that way. Had he been older, he might have said he felt trivialized, yet that word was far beyond his youthful vocabulary. He swallowed, then sighed, deciding to simply accept Bazi's response. She was an authority figure, so she was probably right. No, she was definitely right.

He reached up a hind paw to scratch idly at the side of his neck, then made a sniffing sound and looked up at the mountain. "Did you climbed it?" he inquired, changing the subject, albeit not on purpose. "Do you hafta be a adult?" he wondered, cinnamon ears flattening slightly.