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ITEM (Nothing To Use!)

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ACT (No Enemy Present!)

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RUN (Nowhere to Go!)

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Play. Though he had never had any littermates to hop around with, no friends to pass time with, play came very easy to a child. Especially one like Southeast. He spun about in the shallow waters, kicking sand out of his path as he darted along. Water rose at his sides, thrown upward away from his path. He couldn’t run very quickly, not waterlogged like this, but his scamper was not dampened by this reality.

A simple game of chase-and-splash. That was how he understood it, at least. No teeth required, just aim. He would follow after Daiyu, splashing to his heart’s content. The sun overhead was little more than an unpleasant fly in his ears while he hopped about the tide pool, keeping his eyes narrow to stop them from burning. Whipping his head in one direction to flick water her way, the boy ran along to evade her own “attacks”. A whole life he had lived in the caves. Not once had anywolf shown him a kindness such as this.

He would miss her, he was sure, when it was time to move on. But he would not forget about the day he played chase-and-splash in the oh-sheen. It was halfway through the day, and he’d already learned so much. It was incredible how different it all was out here! He wondered what flowers looked like?