Redeemed

Sunchaser had made her way to Bubble Up, seeking the delicious and mineral laced waters there. She had heard much about it, from random rabbits she had met. Some claimed it helped keep their coats glossy and beautiful. Others claimed it helped keep them healthy and spry. Still others simply said it tasted delicious and they thought that surely such good water must be healthy, but they could not explain what they thought it did. All told, it meant that Sunchaser wanted to find the waters, and try them herself. She was free of expectations, other than the idea that the water would be tasty, but she figured she could spend some time in the area and drink the water, and see how she felt over the course of a few days.

Add to that that it would be a fair bit of a journey from her usual home in the Meadowsweet, between the lowest tip of Nymph's Pool and Sunset Acres, so she thought staying there for some days would be a good idea. Besides, it would give her a chance to try the grasses and flavors of the region, which she had not yet. She was aware they were still just grasses and all, and probably not THAT different from where she lived, but she had noticed, when she ventured into Sunset Acres or the Tanglewood, that the things she ate did taste different.

She wondered about that, and filed those thoughts away for consideration at a later time. But it meant that she expected the food stuffs she encountered when she went to a place she had not been before to taste at least a bit different. She was tracking, in her mind, which ones had flavors she liked the best. Though nothing beat the taste of a wind fall apple found in late summer or early Fall, in her opinion. Now if only she could find a way to have them all year, she would be the happiest rabbit in the world, she thought. But she had not figured out how to do that yet. She was SO very sure she could do it, though... Grasses dried out, and while the flavors changed, grasses saved and dried still tasted good during the winter season, so why could she not manage to do that with an apple?

She would have to find someone who could help her figure this one out. She just had no idea where to find such a person. So far, every rabbit she had met seemed to consider her a little crazy. Was it her fault that she liked to organize things, whether it was information or how the leaves she had gathered were arranged by color, or the proper location of the rooms in a den? No, it was obviously not. She had been born this way.

And then, as she was thinking these thoughts, she came over the crest of a hill, and she could see her destination ahead. Bubble Up, here she came. She was eager to try those waters, and she had been thinking about them for days.

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