The Initiation [Pups & Syr]

The pressure around her wouldn't cease until she was expelled into world, falling in between her siblings, tiny lungs burning with new oxygen, an unhappy cry spilling from her jaws. Foreign materials touched her newborn flesh. The unyielding earth, her mothers thick pelt, the warmth of summer air. She didn't understand this new world that she was forced into, forced to live in now, she simply wanted the warmth and protection of her previous home within her mothers womb, not to be exposed to all kinds of unknown dangers. Crawling blindly, she was forced to find her own way, to find her siblings and take her place amongst them. It went unnoticed that their mother left them to figure it out on their own, newborn or not. Only the strongest would survive.

Tucked away against her mother side she nursed, suckling to get the precious nourishment she needed to survive. It was survival of the fittest in this cruel world. Little she know she would grow up to be something great, greater than either of her parents. For the moment she lived innocently, na?ve to the path she would walk, following in her parents foot steps.

Exhaustion swept over her, calling her name, beckoning her to simply relax and let sleep take over. She obliged for the moment, allowing all her cries and movements to cease. She found her place amongst her siblings, within their mothers careful embrace, drifting off into a world of sleep and dreams. Protected by her family and oblivious tot the world, sleep claimed the newborn babe, carrying her off to a dreamless world.