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Everything had been going well while the family spent time beside the river. The sun was high and bright, but with Mama and their big sister there it had been safe to nap in the grass or wade in the river as they liked. Allie had to admit that she quite enjoyed wading, though she wasn't all that sure about the chance of swimming just yet. The push of the river was a bit too insistent in the deeper sections, so she stayed to the edges mostly. Still, wading was the best of both worlds; walking in the cooling rush and allowing her to scatter droplets in her siblings' direction. Of course, when she spun around to try and splash Butterfly again, she realized that her sister had disappeared.

And thus, Alderfly sighed to herself as she stomped through the woods, peering around the trees with narrowed eyes. She wasn't precisely sure where Butterfly had wandered off too, but the fact that she was getting used to her feet meant she didn't stay in one place. And it was dratted difficult to keep track of a sister that didn't keep still. Big Sister Firefly was going to be so mad when she noticed them missing.

"Oh I swear when I find you Butterfly I am dragging you right back to Mama and Sissy! You see if I don't." She muttered to herself, grumbling as she clambered over a fallen tree. "And if Sissy catches us, I am so telling on you."

Allie had no idea where her sister had thought to go, so mostly she was stumbling around in the woods. She was too mad to admit she might be getting herself lost, and instead tried to find evidence of another soul's passing, such as broken branches or torn ground. "Oh Butter, where do you go!?"

If the other two had followed her, well, little Butter didn't even know. Or really care all too much. She meant, well she did care, but not really. Sometimes not being an only child was a bit difficult. Allie and Dobby would be lost without her. Poor things.

She continued down the path, prancing past more and more two leggers. Just play the part, act like you belong here. Was all that she could tell herself in her head. Surely none of them would ever catch on. Two leggers just weren't too bright from what she could tell. What kind of smart thing walked on two legs when four were so much better?

As she entered the village, Butterfly kept her tail held up high as she trotted from one place to another. This place was huuuugggggeeee. So many two leggers and thingies they lived in and thingies they had. She snuffled at a few ears of maze, her rump quickly swatted and some weird noise coming from the two legger. Giving him an indignant huff Butterfly continue on. There was much more to explore.

Dobby cocked his head to the side as she spoke, considering her words and what they meant. So Butter went off on her own and didn't tell Allie? That didn't really seem out of character for his other sister, really. She was always wandering off, and he agreed with Allie's assessment that she'd likely gone off in search of two-leggers. He shared in Allie's skeptical response to the strange species, though tinged with far more indifference. He hadn't really thought about the creatures seriously at all.

"Of course she didn't tell anyone," he said with superiority. "You know nothing about sneaking off." He scoffed at her, making a sort of snorting noise. "Honestly, Allie, when did you get to be so boring?"

He started off with a roguish grin at Allie in the direction he guessed the two-legger village must be, based on some of his own secret excursions in the area. He'd spotted the place once before, though hadn't ventured close. He didn't even pause to see if his sister had followed him, though he was confident she would. She wasn't stupid by any stretch of the imagination-though he'd never tell her that.

Allie gave her brother a narrow-eyed look as they continued to move along, snapping her tail in annoyance. She hated to be left behind or out of the loop. As the middle child, it was not in her nature! Though really, there were times when she certainly felt like the oldest. And didn't she come up with the good ideas?

This, this circus of Butterfly's certainly didn't sound like a good idea. And leaving Allie behind, trapped with their brat of a brother nagging in her ear, was even worse.

"Not true." She grumbled. "I've done it before and you guys didn't even notice. And I'm not boring, you're just dumb!"

She gave a low sound of annoyance and pinned her ears, eyes slit as she debating giving him a good hard bite for being so rude. Still, he was moving after Butterfly, so she followed his lead, grumbling under her breath the whole time. Not that she'd bother asking why Dobby was tagging along, or why he went wandering around with the two-leggers. Allie certainly hadn't gone there, but she couldn't much account for her sibling's taste.

After all, she was beginning to think Butterfly was dim indeed if her idea of a good time was walking around with dumb two-leggers that couldn't even talk to them... And if that was also Dobby's idea of a good time, well maybe she'd revise her opinion of her brother's intelligence. 'People are boring.. Why would either of you want to go spend time around people?'

Grumbling a bit in annoyance about how her younger brother had become the one to lead the expedition, Alderfly continued pacing on in relative silence. It wasn't that she wanted to be in charge all the time -though really she felt like her siblings would be better off if she were- but this had been her adventure! And then Dobby had come along and now he was in the lead.

Boys were annoying. But no matter, she'd let him have his moment... And later, when he wasn't suspecting a thing, she'd give him a good sharp kick. Or maybe a bite on the rump. Or maybe both.

Both was starting to sound good.

"Hmm?" She muttered, abruptly startled out of her thoughts and joining him to stare at the hooves. It had to be Butterfly, which meant their sister was prancing through the two-legger village, bold as you please. "Butterfly..."

She heaved a sigh at his questions, glared at the village and squared herself. "Well have to just go in, otherwise we'll never find her... And then Momma and Sissy will find us just standing here and we'll be in trouble. So let's just... Let's just walk in and see what we can find. Maybe she hasn't gone that far and we can talk her into going home."

Without a backward glance she lifted her chin and stepped boldly forward, refusing to show she was apprehensive about this whole thing. Dobby would follow her and together they'd find Butterfly and then they could go home. "Come on, the sooner this is over with, the better!"