He doesn't say 'I hope so'. It feels like that's going to be tempting fate, if he does. Fate, or...whatever the heck it is out there. He doesn't like the idea of it being fate, if he's being fully honest.
But he does pause, as Firepaw mutters his way around the timing of littermates and family, and a thought strikes him there. Firepaw is something akin to his age, after all. And...
"...Oh," he realizes with some surprise, sounding at least a fraction less dull and despairing as he does so. "...I guess...uh. You'd be an 'adult' soon, under normal circumstances..."
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He doesn't say 'I hope so'. It feels like that's going to be tempting fate, if he does. Fate, or...whatever the heck it is out there. He doesn't like the idea of it being fate, if he's being fully honest.
But he does pause, as Firepaw mutters his way around the timing of littermates and family, and a thought strikes him there. Firepaw is something akin to his age, after all. And...
"...Oh," he realizes with some surprise, sounding at least a fraction less dull and despairing as he does so. "...I guess...uh. You'd be an 'adult' soon, under normal circumstances..."
That's.
Well.
"...Do you feel any different?"