Ugh, labor pains...

When she pulled Kichi into her chest, Kichi rubbed his head in her chest fur as if it would help him get in their deeper.  He didn’t like her words, didn’t like the pitch in her voice, or the smell on her.  This all felt wrong and he wanted it to stop.  Lurid wasn’t supposed to scare him.  He didn’t want to listen anymore but his betraying ears were straining on every word.  Kichi wanted to go back to sleep, then mom and dad would be there when he woke up.

“Mom and da are smart.  They wouldn’t make a mistake.” Blind faith of a child in parents. “They probably knew something.” This idea caught his fancy and he pulled back just enough to look up at her, his tail wagging faster as he reassured himself. “It’s ok Lurid.  You probably thought a bad thing happened but it didn’t.  I bet if we go to where they are you’ll see its all ok after all.”  This was great logic.  There were a million flaws in that logic clearly but Kichi wasn’t looking at those.  Since his parents being gone was impossible his mind had found an alternate possibility in all this.

He bounded past Lurid, bright eyes looking hopefully at Lurid, “c’mon lets go! You’ll see, we can find them.  I bet they’re coming this way now anyway!” He was happy, relieved but there was a desperate need sort of joy.  If he was wrong it meant a bad thing had happened.  Kichi couldn’t be wrong.  The little grey pup would be right because wrong was bad.  Lurid had never hurt him before, so she shouldn’t now.  These terrible words were just a mistake and he’d be the hero to show her how ok things were.