Blacktail Deer Plateau iii. time flies

finally, post 200 for Graydad! <3

She breathed a sigh when her father expressed his gratitude, a small noise of contentment. Change happened, she was beginning to adapt to it, now. Her stubborn resistance to change in relationships was eroding, slowly, and she realized that the constant resentment and distance between her brother and herself might be a weight on her back better removed. She laid her head on her paws, watching her father with a kind of comfortable happiness in her gaze. In that moment, things were good. 

An abashed smile grew on her muzzle without her consent, and she felt, for the first time in this manner, overwhelmed. "I-  I'm -  It's all I've wanted to do." She admitted softly, mangled sentence proof of her emotion. It was true, she still remembered the time she had told her father that "I'll make you proud, Da."  so long ago. Her gaze was fierce joy mixed with a deep-set love for her father, speaking more for her than her words ever could. She shifted closer to him, draping her head over her shoulders and letting out a happy sigh, breathing in the scent of Da and home and comfort, previous grievances forgotten, his final words enforcing the little smile that refused to fade from her maw.