between the houses / family intro

[PEPPINO]

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They made a cute picture. There wasn't an incredible gap between Pip's age and theirs, but those few months had great leaps in development and experience, so he felt much older nonetheless. It would not be entirely perfect, their family, because nothing ever was, but right now, in the present, they all seemed so...soft in their connections. Soft yet steadfast. Pip did not want to admit his jealousy, but it was there, creeping, fleshy green tendrils that twined through his rib cage. He was not as close as he wished he were to his siblings, to his father, and Jacob- he had such little time to know him. He wanted to laugh and tussle and bicker like siblings seemed to, wanted to give his father a reason to be proud of him, to see him more than at his throne. Pip kept careful polite distance between himself and everyone else, but he hadn't wanted that to extend to his family. They were supposed to be exceptions. Pip was supposed to care for them up close, not stare from afar as though he were capable of conveying any warmth that way.

He wanted to love them better.

But those were selfish thoughts, and they had no place here, with these children, with Junji. The children all seemed to race for the ocean, Typhooners already, but they didn't assist their brother. The young canine moved before fully recognizing that Junji was entirely capable of handling his own brood, attempting to gently lift the brown ragdoll back up onto his paws, out of the water's reach. The sand was troublesome, shifting as it did with the tide. "You didn't swallow the sand, did you?" A small amount wouldn't be too awful, but it could easily cause discomfort. "What's your name? I'm Pip." All the others had introduced themselves, names Pip had tucked away, though this one had been preoccupied with losing his balance.
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