[ P ] Hike

”... And this one is called periwinkle, kind of like your name! When spring comes, it’ll be covered in the prettiest purple flowers you ever saw. Periwinkle has been used for ages for a variety of ailments, including helping upset tummies and helping to clean minor wounds.” Willow’s impromptu teaching had begun while she and Perihelion were on a walk. She thought it was important to spend time with each of the pups individually, and today, she had invited Peri for a hike in the lush forest of Inverness.


Snow crunched beneath her paws, where it covered the dirt path that snaked through the woods. The wolfess looked beside her at the growing lad to see if he was interested at all in her nature lessons, or if he was bored to tears having to listen to Auntie Willow yammer on and on about plants. Just as she wouldn’t push her own career path on her daughter, she wouldn’t dream of doing so to Peri or his brother. Would they become scholars, like their father had been? Willow was uncertain if the boys remembered Arythmetik without the stories they were told. She hoped they could remember his warmth and kindness and all of the wonderful things that had made Aryth so special.


All three of the children, Rowan as well as Grigori’s boys, were getting taller and more lean with age. There was less of the adorable plumpness of chubby puppies as they bound toward adolescence. She knew that their Aryth would be proud of how they were growing up. Curiously, she asked the boy, ”What do you want to be when you grow up, Peri?”



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