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There is a great dream. Something that the little beast has no real grasp on. His two-month-old brain was only accustomed to dreams of milk and warmth — they only ever faltered when Ive wasn't present or if one of his siblings kicked away too far in their sleep. Axel was like a moth, always searching for a source of light and warmth, unintentionally coveting it with his colder body temperature.

But when a massive shake rustles the boy awake, baby blues have been replaced by olive green, sight unraveling to his siblings and mothers still intact — for now. Axel, who was never one to wake first, found himself pulling away from the pit of warmth, only looking back once, before venturing further forward, towards the early morning light that beckoned outside of the den.

Though the little boy knows not of the plight that Mythris has gone through, the worry of the rumbling shakes his puppy bones just the same. His blackened nose is first out, sniffing wildly, then his eyes peeking carefully. After assessing, he hops fully out, floppy puppy ears tilting, trying to hone in on where the sound had echoed from.

Sazora

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A heavy shake filled the world and Ivan jolted awake, checking each of her babies before she noticed one was missing. Axel. She quickly, though delicately, shifted away from her babies and checked the scents of where he'd been last. She nosed her way to the mouth where he stood. She hadn't realized how she'd tensed and when she relaxed she sighed, she blew out a puff of air she didn't know she'd been holding and came to stand next to her son.

She watched as he sniffed and tilted his head to try and find where the sound had come from. She too stuck her nose to the winds and sniffed, she swiveled onyx tipped audits this way and that but couldn't pinpoint where the sound and shake had come from. What do you think my son? She asked the boy, questioning what he found in his observations of the outside. She found the musk of many animals and the dankness of the forest, she noticed a heavy thickness in the air she couldn't explain and felt her fur standing on end. Ivandri shuddered a tiny bit from the weight the atmosphere brought.

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