We had gotten
ourselves up and packed and on the road in record time. We were on the road at least by six. I had put a
cradle in the front with us and managed to put both Scarlet and Rei into the
same so that it wasn't so hard for me or Darcy. She had decided that she liked
that nickname for some reason, and I didn't discourage it. Skyla had kept on
insisting that she was going to watch Chase in the back. She has always liked
the babies, and kept standing up with the wagon going at the young teams, fasts
pace.
"Skyla, if I have to
tell you to sit down you will not be permitted near Cookies when we get home.
That seemed to have done the trick. She sat until we made our first stop that
day. Then surprisingly sat there and played quietly for sometime.
"Mamma?"
"What Sunshine?"
"I'm going to play with
that girl again?" I had to smile
"You like her didn't
you? Skyla nodded.
"Why does she have a
tail?"
"That’s how she was
born"
"But I don't have
one." Skyla stated.
"Yes Skyla I know, that’s because Charity is a lion cub, and you My
Sunshine are a bear. A Gummi Bear to be exact." I
stole a glance at the little eyes, then pulled the horses to a stop, it was
getting late, everyone else were trying to sleep,
"Dar, would you like to
go into the back?" She nodded. "Skyla since you've been so good I'm
going to let you sit up here for a little while." That little cub climbed
over that seat before I had a chance to change my mind. I also too the opportunity
to make sure the babies were all covered over good.
Clicking to the horses we
started off again and I started telling Skyla about our kind.
"I like that boy Cubbi,
he sounds like me!"
"I know. If I wasn't mistaken
I would have sworn that you and he were related somehow. He was in the Glen
clan just like you and Chase are."
"Mamma
Selena?"
"Dar, I thought you fell
asleep."
"No I just wanted to let
Sky have my seat, I like that story. Wouldn't Ursa and Buddi have loved to see
that there are Barbics left now?"
"I'm sure they would,
Sweetheart." I drove the team in silence for a bit.
"Darlita, I wasn't you
to stop using my name, and start calling me Mamma or something like that. I
don't want you just calling me Selena anymore, or Mamma Selena, and if that’s too much call me Mom.