It had taken much coaxing, pleading, prodding, and whining to finally get his sire to drop them off at the playground. It wasn’t that he was sick of digging his little claws into the red dusted cliffs or tumbling  off low canyons into the warm shallow pools below (much to his father’s dismay and Lillibet’s delight), there was much of Loess to discover the young shifter finds. There weren’t any other foals their age though and while he loves his parents and his sister more than anything, he wouldn’t mind having someone else to play with. He’s not sure where he learned of the playground but once the idea was in his head, he was insistent of visiting for himself. Once he had shared the idea with his twin, it hadn’t taken long to wear down the one-eyed stallion after some very persistent needling from the both of them.

The young colt had taken to shifting like a duck to water and was constantly found in his black and white cub form but Ledger had patiently explained for the millionth time that it would take too long to travel in that shape and so he sighs and reluctantly dons the equine body he had been born into. On lanky gold striped limbs he prances besides his sire and sister all the way to the Playground. The trip alone is exciting, so many new sights and sounds and smells for him to explore. He is constantly distracted and has to be reeled back in by the both of them more than once.

When they finally arrive, he dashes off without even a backwards glance at his father. Ledger sighs and begrudgingly watches them go, calling that he would be back in an hour. Paranoid and overprotective as always, the flaxen stallion has no intention of going too far but finally leaves after the diligent fairy in charge shoos him away, insulted by the lack of faith in her standards of care.

Link notices none of this, a grin on his bright lips and mischief dancing in the gold flecks of his warm brown eyes. He wastes no time in shifting and summersaults down a hill until he lands on his small fuzzy head and stays there, looking up at whoever he managed to roll into. “Hi!” He nearly shouts, enthusiastic as always. “I’m Link! That’s my sister Lillibet! We’ve never been here before! Do you want to be friends?” The words tumble out of him in a bark of excitement as he rolls himself the right way up to better look at them.