Peter's comment earns a warm, genuine smile from you, because while you know you're supposed to care about facts and certainty and what is accurate, it's nice to be told that sometimes you don't have to. That you can just do things to feel happy, and feel things without having to worry about the implications in the broad scheme of things. "Thanks, Peter."
Found family, frankly, isn't something you're particularly familiar with. Oh, you know the concept well enough - all things build colonies and social structures, and humans don't need blood ties for them. But for so long all you've had is Oia (for as long as you can remember, at least, which is really not that long), and though you have never felt that she was anything but enough, well...
You can have enough and still want more.
And on that unsettled note you rise, offering Apricum a final scratch behind his ears. "I oughta go observe s'more stuff before it gets dark," you remark, smiling at Peter. "It was nice t'meetcha, though! We should climb trees again sometime if you want. Bye!"
And with that you turn to make your way into the woods, your thoughts jumbling just a little as you try to make sense of these new emotions.
{-kai out}
