[PRP] The Rhythm of the World (Adagio x Vevilla)

[Wylde Roses]

The world was a very big place. Bigger still to one young cub, just old enough to start exploring it. That didn't mean that one needed to rush, however - exploring at a slow and easy pace was still exploring, after all! With this thought in mind, Adagio meandered around in no particular direction, watching and listening - always listening - to everything around him. He walked for only a little distance, before flopping down to the ground and listening to the wind stirring the grass.

The sound was faint, but it was there - a quiet, easy kind of shh-shh-shh-shh that soothed him and made him feel at ease. His ears flicked once, twice, three times, and as he shifted he could have sworn he heard something nearby, a low kind of thrum-whirr-whirr. Glancing to his right, where the sound originated from, he saw an insect - he was too young to know what it was but he liked the sound that it was making, so he lay still, lest her frighten it into leaving.

But for whatever reason - who knew what went on in an insect's mind? - it chose that moment to fly away, and Adagio couldn't help the disappointed "Aww..." that escaped him as he watched it leave. He only sulked for a moment, though, before standing up again and wandering in another direction - maybe his mother was around here somewhere. It would be nice to talk about the things in the world with someone who knew about so much more of it than he did.  

[Yin-Bug]

Vevilla wasn't that far away, she was above them some sitting on a bit of an elevated rock, keeping an eye on all of her cubs. They were all off doing their own things, wandering a little but she could see all of them from here. She was enjoying keeping them busy and enjoying her time with them. She knew it wasn't always going to be easy and she knew that she had seen them once or twice getting annoyed at each other but she was pretty laid back with her cubs and she liked to let them do as they please and only interrupt when she needed to. She wanted to let them discover themselves and what they liked and how to handle eachother. She knew that a good amount of the time that was the way her parents raised her. She was trying to go along with what she could and what she knew.

She smiled as she watched the little cub, colored like the male that was their father. She liked the male but she knew that she couldn't do anything about him leaving, he was gone and that was all too it. She couldn't do anything about it but she didn't mind to a point, it was an interesting challenge and she wasn't going to lie, she loved these cubs and she felt very connected to them. She watched as the small blue eyed cub wandered a little and she chuckled letting out a small chuff directed to him.He seemed a little lost and she was hoping that it would help him get a hold of what he was doing. She smiled brightly as she watched them, she was so proud of all of them.  

[Wylde Roses]

Adagio looked up when he heard the chuff, and his blue eyes lit up with happiness as he changed course and headed right toward her. "Mama~! Mama~!" He called out, but despite his visible excitement upon seeing her he didn't pick up his pace at all, and continued his slow meander in her direction. "I have questions, Mama," he said once he felt he was close enough. "Lots of questions, and - and you're really smart so I thought I would ask you!"

He smiled, then, and flopped to the ground, rolling over onto his back so he could peer up at his only parent that way, instead of having to angle his head up. Besides, from this position he could look at the clouds and wonder what kind of sound they might make way up in the sky. Clouds were lazy thing, only moving when they were pushed! But they had to make some kind of sound - maybe it was like the sound birds' wings made when they flew!

"Mama, I saw a bug but it flew away when I was tryin'a listen to it. Why did it leave?"  

[Yin-Bug]

Vevilla looked at the younger cub and then grinned as he started to call her mama. It always made her so proud to be called Mama. It made sense of why her grandmother had so many cubs. She loved being proud of her cubs. "Hello there Ada." She giggled and then stood up and moved closer to him leaning forward and lowering her head to nuzzle him before chuckling. "Questions!?" she asked back to him before flopping down on her haunches and
'thinking'. "I think I can answer your questions." She told him confidently before looking down waiting for his first question before chuckling at it.

"Well you see little one, think about it. How big are you?" She asked him playfully patting a paw on top of his head and leaving it there before continuing to talk to him. "You see if you're this big and the bug is much smaller it must have been scared!" She was hoping that he understood that. "If a really big lion came this way would you be scared?" She asked him back curiously.  

[Wylde Roses]

Feeling the weight of his mother's paw on his head, the small cub tried to look up at it for a moment, then flopped over onto his back to stare up at Vevilla better. This way he didn't have to crane his neck to see the world! Plus, things were so much more interesting from an upside-down view. Everything looked different, but also the same! It was nice. He wrinkled his nose and thought for a moment, tail twitching slightly.

"Mmm....nope! 'Cause what if he just wanted to be friends or listen to me doing something? Then running away would be silly!"  

[Yin-Bug]

Vevilla looked at the little cub and chuckled nodding his head before flicking his hair out of his eyes and then smiled at the male. She thought the little cub was so cute. She remembered when she was younger and she used to do basically the same exact things when she was younger, she used to do it all of the time. She smiled and then laid down right next to her cub and then licked the top of his head. "I guess you do have a point there little one." She chuckled again before extending her paw out and looking around. "you can't forget though, you're much bigger! Maybe he was afraid you didn't see him?" She offered trying to figure out how to explain to the cub that when something is bigger most of the time you go the other way. Either way she didn't mind she was just happy to be spending some time with the little one.  

[Wylde Roses]

Adagio beamed up at his mother and purred as she licked his head, leaning upwards from his flopped over position to nuzzle at her. Then he batted her with a paw and giggled cheerfully. His gaze slipped up to the clouds in the sky, then to the grasses whispering in the wind, and finally back to his mother.

"You mean he thought I was goin' to squish him, Mama?" He asked, grabbing at a flower that stretched over his head and trying to pull it down to his nose. Unfortunately, the flower tickled his nose and made him sneeze.

"A-achoo!"