Into the Ether

Cascade was curled around Chaos, watching him with worry as he struggled to suckle, when a voice called out from outside her den. She whipped her head around fast enough to flatten her ear for a moment, causing the tiny pup to squeak angrily. She blinked, feeling very unfocused just now with the drugs already in her system and the exhaustion of a hard birth both catching up to her at the same time. "Yeah, don't worry about me, I'm good, everything's good! You uhhh... you go ahead to the orchard, I'll catch you anoth - Actually," her stomach had given a rumble of protest. The porcupine seemed like five years ago. "Actually I could use something to eat if you don't mind? A squirrel or... or maybe a moose... yeah a moose would be cool..."

But then Valentine's voice reached her ears, and she froze in place. Her brain came to a grinding halt. She hadn't even begun to consider how to explain her unexpected pregnancy to the unsuspecting father, let alone Chaos'... oddities. She coughed. "Uh... heyyyy Valen. You remember that time we went trespassing in Sonticus...?" She nervously licked at Chaos, who blatted at her in protest and immediately went back to the super serious task of trying to suckle.