Ouroboros Spine Sweet as sunrise

After a short while he tilted his head back. Massaraq frowned. Of course adults could not be around all the time, but he had really thought that Chickadee would come.  Maybe she was busy with his brother. Kivaluk was so fun to play with that made sense since Massaraq had lost track of time when he and Galana and Kivaluk had all played together.

But that meant they could not cross the river, the sharp cry from Ajei fresh in his ears and the rush of the water still tingling over his paws though he was on dry land. Still, he was not ready for their grand little adventure to end. "I don't think Chickadee will come..." He tried not to sound too disappointed, he had wanted to see the fire tree. "Do you want to go to the lake instead? We can't cross it,  but the water is calmer and it's also very pretty." He remembered seeing it briefly, the wide blue reminding him of his sibling's eyes and the sky.