The Cattle Part 2

Frey had her tiny fingers laced into Silver’s fur, tightly gripping the light blue strands with a small amount of pressure as to not hurt the rune wolf. Ever since she joined Fairy Tail, despite coming to like it here, she was a little restless. Back in her old village? She had went outside the walls every single day, with other Earth-Mates, the dragon guardians or the dragons themselves; Now she only went out and about when Kanix was going somewhere and it was only when Kanix was going somewhere alone. Even if she was happy with her mother? Frey was dimly aware there must be other people within it besides herself and Kanix, whether she was told or simply implied the fact, that was another unknown story. However in the end, the little girl did not like staying inside so much, it just was not the way she was, normally she was out in nature, not indoors, even if most of the guild hall was rather naturey, to Frey it was not the same thing as actually being out in the wild.

“I can fight for myself, silver just doesn’t let me half the time, come on boy, let me show mom I’m strong this time, alright?!” she laughed as she spoke, but her small face had an expression of seriousness placed upon it, even as her pale green eyes shone. While she was making mostly light of it? The fact her wolf barely ever let her fight directly, was very true, he kept her upon his back, so he could keep the little girl out of harm's way as much as possible. If it ever came to a choice between his life or her’s, he would chose her’s, every single time. Thus so long as Silver lived, the little girl was very safe, he would never let harm fall to her. “Let’s go than! Giddy up Silver!” the little girl didn’t have to kick his sides or anything, no nudges or stuff people usually used to direct their animals. One day? Their bond may evolve to allow him to read her mind or something, but for now her lack of direction was because she knew he would follow her mother. Silver did exactly as the girl expected, and trotted along behind Kanix, scampering up onto the thunderbird when they reached it.

“I’ve never been on a ship before, there were airships around the village, but everyone always said I was too young to go out as far as the ships took people.” she still talked about the place she had come from initially, quite a bit, yet with each word, it seemed she was less and less eager to return there and more eager to stay with fairy tail. Right now? She was too young for it to matter anyway, but one day she’d have to decide for good if she wanted to be a dark mage or live in the village with the other Earth-Mates. At the moment, she just settled for resting her head against her mother’s back and leaning forward on Silver, nearly falling asleep on the flight over to Cedar, a small bit of drool wiped from the side of her mouth they landed and she woke.

“Ship’s are kinda big.” the second she spoke this, silver ran from the bow to the stern and back to Kanix, as if demonstrating Frey’s words. “And they take you to an adventure? I like ships!” she decided instantly these were good things and in a rare moment slid from silver’s back to rush over and grab her mother’s leg, large eyes looking up at the woman. “I want to go on ships more often.” Frey was gigglig, the ship was moving, Silver was lying against one of the rails, keeping a careful eye on his little girl and the woman who had adopted her. To be brutally honest, the icey looking wolf did not know he truly felt about Frey being adopted by other magic users, in a formal way. In the village? He had been the only one who really mattered, her true family there, but now she grew closer and closer to others, sometimes it was distressing for him.

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Frey had not even known what anything besides nature was for the longest time of her life. Considering she grew up in a rather undeveloped town, just the basics, a scenic place that valued its connection to nature and it’s dragons? Rune never really had to experience what being outside of nature was until she was moved into her own house, since for the first few years of life she was kept inside the castle which had an open roof, protected by a thin film the dragoness projected, so rain would not ruin the gorgeous palace. Once she got so old however? Than she had to live in a house on her own, near the castle, near the infirmary, for safety, but on her own. Honestly it was not the town’s fault, they just didn’t know how to deal with her sometimes, when she started asking where she had come from, and by the time she figured out they would never tell her, well she was already in that house, so nothing was left to be done about it, things were just that way. Even now? She had her own room, it was near Kanix’s, but silver needed the room to roll about and she needed to be alone at this point in her life. Constantly being around someone else? Would just make her life far harder.

“I don’t even really know how to find jobs.” she only knew that the first old man had come and asked them while they were out, and than this one came in a letter she intercepted. However in terms of actually knowing about the job board and such, the child was fairly clueless. Actually? Silver ensured of that, Frey was a smart girl who would figure out what the job board was if she got to seeing it somewhat, so he made sure every time they neared it, that she couldn’t even second glance the object. The idea his precious little girl could go on missions without an elder guardian to keep her safe, even missions without combat? Drove him mad and made him fear for her life. Clearly, he was not easily going to let her go on other jobs when he could help it, she was much too young in his opinion to be out on her own, even with him as guardian!

“He does that well.” she pet the wolves head slightly, yawning distinctly, as if she had stayed up late the night before or such, like some children were known to do. “Tell me more.” she sounded sleepy as she spoke, dragging after Kanix on the ship.

Now that she had her arms around her mother’s leg, the child did not really intend to let go right now, even if it would prevent the woman from walking around. The little girl? Was feeling clingy today, and would behave accordingly until the feeling wore off. “How much stronger will I need to be?” Silver kept his eyes on them, the look on his long face saying he hoped it was adult stronger! However Frey was hopping it  was like a rank or something, like a small thing she could easily overcome by following her mother around enough. “I can be really strong, promise!” tiny arms tightened around Kanix’s leg as the girl’s voice increased to a slight whine, before she cuddled into her mother’s leg and yawned once more. Apparently? Frey was significantly tired today, or her nap just wasn’t over.