The Heartwood Dance fruits.

the journey was two parts exciting and exhausting.

but towhee jr doesn't complain; instead taking the world outside of epoch in with wide, eager eyes.

but she tires easily. too easily for her liking and at any chance she gets, though she fears missing something, she curls up alongside sable in the hopes that her naps are short.

she stirs awake; disoriented for a moment, heart thudding loud in her chest, in her throat. she looks 'round gaze finding sable first — the closest to her — before she finds towhee and phox in the nearby distance.

she stretches the sleep from her stiff limbs and trots over to the adults, eager to just ... be apart of it.