Herbalists' Cache Tomorrow, I'll switch the beat to avoid yesterday's dance

The journey was miserable but she did her best to hide it, trying to cheer him up. He just seemed so stoic, so paranoid about safety and she knew it was within good reason but she wanted to explore and just relax for once without having someone around her all the time. It ate away at her that she was all he had left, a young wolf who could barely make a journey much less hunt and fight.


While he grew thinner and she grew leaner and taller, muscles more defined and fur thickening she became aware of what he was doing. He was beating himself up and suffering to ensure her survival, he was that scared to lose her. When they paused and he announced that they would rest she stood and panted roughly as he went to lay down. She watched him her eyes watering but ducked her head and walked to him laying down and pressing her body to his so he would have her warmth. "Tomorrow we hunt together papa. You should eat" she murmured as the feeling of his breathing began to coax slowly at her exhaustion.