Pocahontas crouched down behind her daughters, wrapping an arm around each one. "Girls, can you see that deer over there? The one with the two young fawns?" The five-year old girls looked into the woods in confusion, neither seeing where their mother was pointing. While Bess squinted her eyes to get a better look, Kasi kept tilting her head in hopes of discovering the animals her mother was viewing.
When the mother looked down at the twin girls, she couldn't help but laugh. Despite being Native American in all appearance, they shared their father's curiosity and inherited his ability to overlook what was right in front of them. "Girls, if you look just past the-"
The tribal queen was interrupted by a very excited and rambunctious squeal from Bess. "Mama I see it! I see the deers! Wait… Mama, is many deer deers? And are fawns deers too or are they just fawns? And, Mama, when does a fawn stop being a fawn?"
In the time it look Bess to discover the family of deer, Kasi had plopped herself on the ground and closed her eyes. Doing her best to ignore her ever-curious twin, Kasi took a deep breath and tried to become in tune with the world around her. While far more spiritual then Bess, Kasi would get frustrated by not being nearly as spiritual as her mother- to which the elder woman would just laugh and try to explain that it came with age.
Kasi ignored her sister to try to listen to the doe and her children. She could hear a rabbit. Hear the wind. A squirrel. A flock of birds. But no deer. Just when the young girl was about to give up she heard it- the soft munching unmistakably belonging to a deer. When Kasi opened her eyes she looked in the direction from where she heard the noise and much to her shock and excitement she did not find the deer her mother had been talking of- but a young buck.
"So then why are the deer brown? Why not green? And Mama, why can't deer fly like the birds? Do they not like the air? How come the birds fly rather then walk like the rest of us?" As Kasi stood up she grinned at her sister and mother, obviously not missing much in their discussion.
Pocahontas looked away from Bess to smile at Kasi. "Did you find something?"
The girl smiled to herself, looking back to where the buck had been only to find an empty clearing. She decided to keep the buck to herself. "Yes Mama, I found something."
Pocahontas hugged her daughters before looking up to the sky. "I think it is about time we return to the village, your father and baby brother probably miss us by now." The girls agreed cheerily, both having enjoyed their trip out with their mother- Bess getting answers to her seemingly limitless questions, and Kasi becoming even more in tune with her spiritual side.
And while Pocahontas loved spending the day in the woods with her girls she could not wait to get back to her boys. And she could only trust John with infant Dakotah for so long.
So here is another update to my story- sorry it has been so long! I've been super stressed with my summer college class and it's been really hard. I finally decided to sit down and write another installment. Obviously this was Pocahontas- I haven't watched her movie(s) in forever so I apologize for any out-of-character-ness or inconsistency with the movie. As far as the girls' father goes… I didn't know who to pick and I realized both were named John- so I'll leave it for you to decide who the father is, Smith or Rolfe.
Hope you enjoyed it- sorry for the wait!- and hopefully I can have another chapter soon.