Midnight Surprises

The male pup wriggled within the warm and enclosed confines of the being that he would come to know as mother. Then all of a sudden it was all choking. Convulsing. Change. Within mother there was a shift, a moment that was decided that now was the time for him and the one alongside him he'd call sister to leave. The deaf pup couldn't hear anything. The blind pup couldn't see anything. And a score of moments after his sister left him all alone he began to sense movement outside the birth sack he was encased in. The pup felt a firm impact followed by a chilly sensation overcoming him. He began to cough and a weak wail left him as he mother licked him clean and stimulated his breathing.

A deep rumble named him Kailos, but he couldn't hear that moment when it became so. It would be all he would know. All he would respond to. A rather ominous name. Kailos smelled milk and sensed warmth, and he wriggled towards the wispy fur along his mothers stomach. Warmth radiated to him and his tiny maw clamped on a teat to feed, milk filling his belly and the one called sister was placed next to him by father. Kailos drank till he was full, and maybe a little more, before curling up under the hind leg of mother where it was warm and safe before falling asleep.