Bearclaw Valley Pack your bags.

Shooting this out real quick, have to go to bed, but wanted to squeeze something in before the round ends. You guys are fast! :o

It happened quickly, too fast for Nanook to process or understand. The sudden awakening, the promise of an adventure. With her increasing need to know the world, Nanook leapt to her paws and scuttled over to where mama stood. And that was when papa showed up. Nanook turned to him and her eyes lit up, and her tail gave a vigorous sway. He was coming, too! But though she offered him a bright and excited gaze, he did not turn to her, nor did he turn to Xan. Rather, he sharpened his gaze on mama, and mama did the same to him.

The anger and hurt passed between her parents caused her fur to spike, and all thoughts of adventure dropped from her mind. Nanook passed a rapid sweep of her head from parent to parent while Desna beckoned her to follow and Xan raised his voice in protest to it all. The girl flattened her ears against the noise and fixed the air between her parents with a hardened stare.

She didn't move. Nanook steeled herself, and her murky eyes iced. She didn't know what was happening, why mama and papa fought, why Xan was crying like she'd never seen him cry before, why Desna was so adamant in getting her to follow. She didn't understand, and with every thought Nanook pressed her claws deeper into the dirt of the rocky ground. Until she could figure out what was going on, she wasn't going anywhere, no matter who called her to go.