Hey, Mama Rock Me

As Alfrun stroked her paw over the gleaming crystalline surface, she thought about what it would mean to bring pups into a world that was ending. They would grow up strong, nurtured by a pack of fierce warriors as they would be. They would be able to... suddenly the previously solid crystal crumpled benesth her paw into a pile of bloodstained rock dust that puffed up around her paw as the unsuspecting appendage suddenly fell through the crumbling form. The hair all along the usually phlegmatic priestess' back rose amd she shrank back from the remains, her deformed lips pulling back in an atavistic and superstitious reaction. That crystal had appeared to bless her and Jupiter's litter, and this sudden change was a clear omen, one that frightened Alfrun.