🌿 | leafy lunchtime with a new neighbor.

Hmm. If I knew how to describe myself, it would’ve saved me a lot of self-doubt early on.

Some had thought that because of who my brother was – abrasive, set in his ways... brutal at times – that I would’ve followed in his footsteps. However, I am nothing of the sort. At least, I tried not to be. I followed Kron’s leadership in the herd without question because he was my brother, never minding how cruel he would be to those he didn’t deem ‘worthy enough’ to survive the migration towards the Nesting Grounds.

But then along comes a wandering planteater with a couple furballs latching onto him that he called his family to shake the mold, and... you begin to question if what you thought you knew for sure was really the best path to follow. Aladar’s bravery, his kindness and generosity towards those deemed ‘weak’ or ‘slow’, his patience with them and his inherently caring nature towards children were unlike anything I’d ever experienced having been around Kron for so very long.

Naturally, you could say he changed my mind about a lot of things. And while I do miss my brother, and always will even with his faults, his aggression, his thick-headed stubbornness... I’m happy here with Aladar, together in the Nesting Grounds with a whole new life to look forward to.