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Post by wynnyelle on May 17, 2008 16:10:32 GMT -5
Luzia lay her head down on the den floor. She breathed in the smells--of her kits, of the wood roots that made up the ceiling and walls of their home, of the bedding and of her mate. "Yes," was all she had the energy to say. She soon went to sleep while the kits still suckled away.
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Post by Omega on May 17, 2008 16:13:54 GMT -5
After the new litter had their fill, they all curled up and went to sleep. Sombra soon followed as the sun set.
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Post by wynnyelle on May 17, 2008 16:45:19 GMT -5
Rappella woke up first the next morning and had her morning suckle.
Luzia awoke when she felt the mouth of her kit having her first breakfast. It was a little uncomfortable, those little mouths sure pulled hard sometimes. "Good morning."
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Post by Omega on May 17, 2008 17:16:47 GMT -5
Sombra was already awake. He rolled another gungo berry into the cave-like structure they called home. "Breakfast!"
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Post by wynnyelle on May 17, 2008 18:03:37 GMT -5
Luzia was sore all over, especially in her nether regions, from the birth of five kits. "Oh...thank you Sombra. So much. I just love those fruits." she didn't want to get up to go eat yet, since she would disturb her nursing kits if she did.
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Post by Omega on May 17, 2008 18:27:45 GMT -5
"Hold on," said Sombra before breaking rolling it closer to Luzia and breaking it open with an iron tail, "There you go. Soon enough, our litter will be able to eat these, too."
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Post by wynnyelle on May 17, 2008 18:44:00 GMT -5
Luzia munched on the soft pulpy fruit. "Thanks. We can't just eat these fruits, though...we need meat."
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Post by Omega on May 17, 2008 18:47:27 GMT -5
Sombra nodded before dashing off. A bit later, he returned with two dead rattata. "This should last us," he said.
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Post by wynnyelle on May 17, 2008 18:50:49 GMT -5
"Wonderful," said Luzia. "Thank you so much."
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Post by Omega on May 17, 2008 18:55:26 GMT -5
"No problem," replied Sombra, "It's for the good of the children. Your milk gets nutrients from your food."
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Post by wynnyelle on May 17, 2008 19:15:08 GMT -5
"Yes...they do," said Luzia. "I'm still a little on the thin side so I hope I can produce enough milk."
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Post by Omega on May 17, 2008 19:20:39 GMT -5
"If we get enough food into you," replied Sombra.
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Post by wynnyelle on May 17, 2008 19:28:58 GMT -5
"It takes a long time to put on tht much weight again after all I lost," said Luzia. "I was at the point where I couldn't lose any more weight at all." She started eating the rattata, she was hungry for meat.
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Post by Omega on May 17, 2008 19:39:40 GMT -5
"You look healthy to me," replied Sombra.
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Post by wynnyelle on May 17, 2008 19:50:51 GMT -5
"I feel so beat," said Luzia. "Just...sore, all over. And I'm healthy now but I was a little fatter before I was imprisoned. Not much difference though I guess."
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Post by Omega on May 17, 2008 19:52:11 GMT -5
"You'll be fine," said Sombra, "The fact that you're producing milk is good."
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Post by wynnyelle on May 17, 2008 20:03:47 GMT -5
"It's a good thing I'm producing milk," said Luzia. "if I weren't--our kits would probably be dead by now. Or dying."
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Post by Omega on May 17, 2008 20:05:37 GMT -5
"No, our kits will be fine," replied Sombra, "But I worry for Flare. He is my firstborn. The unown will be hunting for him."
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Post by wynnyelle on May 17, 2008 20:07:42 GMT -5
"The unowns might even want all of them." Luzia looked down at her babies. Rappella had finished suckling and gone to sleep. "They were all born at about the same time."
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Post by Omega on May 17, 2008 20:13:03 GMT -5
"Flare was my first," replied Sombra, "Nevertheless, we must prevent them from taking our children. I will put my life on the line to defend our litter."
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Post by wynnyelle on May 17, 2008 20:42:11 GMT -5
"They haven't done anything to us yet," said Luzia. "As long as we don't ever return, or as long as our children don't, we should all be fine. I hope."
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Post by Omega on May 17, 2008 20:47:19 GMT -5
"Our children must never know of Erymire," said Sombra, "For if they venture south, there's no telling what could happen."
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Post by wynnyelle on May 17, 2008 21:53:36 GMT -5
"We never have to tell them where we came from, only that it was a bad place," said Luzia, agreeing. "They were born here, so it doesn't pertain to their history at all."
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Post by Omega on May 17, 2008 22:04:15 GMT -5
"I suppose..." replied Sombra with much disdain.
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Post by wynnyelle on May 17, 2008 22:59:49 GMT -5
"Well? You don't sound too happy about it. The kits have some right to learn eventually what went on before they were born. But if they ask, we can just say it was somewhere near here that we came from, and when they're a lot older and able to take care of themselves, we can tell them more if they ask. Really, they won't have any reason to think we're not from the Far Reaches."
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Post by Omega on May 18, 2008 7:36:44 GMT -5
"That's true," said Sombra, "But our litter should have freedom. We shouldn't have to hide like rattata from a pidgeot!"
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Post by wynnyelle on May 18, 2008 9:49:06 GMT -5
"This seems like a large land to me," said Luzia. "I don't see why our kits would feel like prisoners up here. They can pretty much go wherever they want once they get old enough."
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Post by Omega on May 18, 2008 9:59:32 GMT -5
"Not Erymire," replied Sombra, "I fear you nor I may return either."
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Post by wynnyelle on May 18, 2008 10:04:18 GMT -5
"I don't know if you realise how far away from Erymire we must be here," said Luzia. "Just the look of this whole place, tells me we are probably so far from erymire that our children might not be able to walk there in their whole lifetimes."
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Post by Omega on May 18, 2008 10:26:18 GMT -5
"Charna said it would take half a year," replied Sombra.
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