Oooh Babies! (Dhanya)

by **Flick** on October 20th, 2010, 10:22 pm

55th Day of Autumn, morning

Flick lay in the morning sun, ears up and eyes wide open, trained on the stable of the sanctuary. She'd heard the screams and yells the day prior. There had been a woman, and she was pregnant, and she had babies. The young kelvic didn't know babies - had never been around them. But they smelt nice from her hiding place. The small fox had been too scared to go down yesterday, afraid maybe that someone was dying or something. It sounded bad. At one point she'd had to leave the Sanctuary just to get away from the sound.

Early this morning, she crept back in, listening and smelling for the new arrivals. The stable still smelled like the event, but she couldn't hear them in their any more. Granted, Kavala would never leave a mother and her babies to sleep in a stable. Unless they of course, requested it. Still, she couldn't hear them.

Standing up with a jump, the fennec skittered up the steps into the homestead, ears up and nose to the ground. She stopped mid step, tilting her head to listen better. There was breathing, snuffling. Lowering her head, she smelt around on the ground, before sitting down and tucking her tail around her. Should she continue, or should she just stay away. What if the babies were asleep and she woke them up? People in the taverns always said that was bad.

by **Dhanya** on November 1st, 2010, 5:59 am

"I can't believe I made you." She whispered to Katya, touching the soft hair upon her head as she held her daughter.

Dhanya had never felt so utterly, entirely wrecked as she did then. Out of her element as well. She hadn't realised just how heavy a child's head could be when you'd been supporting it for twenty minutes. She was torn between pleasure and fear because it hadn't been as simple as she had assumed it would be. Even feeding her children had a knack to it and if she hadn't been given help, she was sure she would have cried just figuring it out.

She still wished for Khiara or her mother, even Van, though perhaps she wished for him as he had been in her eyes before she left him. She was still lonely and feeling quite friendless but...

She had a roof above her head and it seemed she had landed in the middle of a place that wanted nothing but to look out for her and her newborns. Her luck had changed, somehow. She had many questions for herself, what was she going to do for nappies on the road? but they were going to wait because she didn't want to think about them.

"Hush a bye, don't you cry,
Go to sleep my little babies,
When you wake you shall see...
Goats and six-a-little horses."

Dhanya sang softly, as she held Katya to her breast and peered over to see that Ouin was still resting. Her mother had sung her the song but she decided to change it a little. Drykas children would never see coaches. Hopefully not.

"Blacks and bays, dapples and greys,
all the pretty drykas horses."

She heard a skittering sound but paid it no mind. There were always people and animals moving about at Sanctuary.

song :

by **Flick** on November 3rd, 2010, 10:44 am

Flick listened intently, ears up and nose twitching. She almost trembled with intense concentration as she focused on the song. It was so pretty. And the voice was so...young. Standing up, she crept towards the room step by step, poking her head inside the doorway very slowly. There was a girl..a woman? And little people. Babies.

Moving closer, the fox couldn't help herself. Curiosity would one-day be her downfall. For now though, it was her driving force. Sniffing, the fennec snorted suddenly. There was something to the smells. Maybe it was the stables...no...it wasn't horses. It was...something like horses. Moving closer still, the small creature made a choice. She wanted to say hello. To the woman and her babies. They were nice and little and soft looking. Shimmering brightly, she stood naked just inside the doorway, playing with a lock of long hair over one shoulder and smiling widely.

"Hello." She said softly, restraining her eager questions for the moment. Something about the woman made Flick feel less hyper...more mellow. Maybe it was the babies. Babies made people feel funny, or so she'd heard. Did they have powers? Ooh...that was a thought! Shaking off the thought-train before it derailed her, the fox smiled again.

"My name is Flick."

by **Dhanya** on November 15th, 2010, 12:08 pm

Kavala had mentioned Kelvics before. Dhanya was pleased to meet another of her race, having found them few and far between on the road. The woman before her looked a little younger than herself and slighter as well. Adorable as a fox and a biped.

"Hello sister, I'm Dhanya." She replied, ducking her head. "This is Katya."

She settled her daughter down, brushing a hand over the lily upon her brow, watching it sparkle. Dhanya then shifted her attentions to her son, lifting him gently so she could begin to feed him. She assumed Flick would not mind. Kelvics were not meant to be wowsers, it was a relief to be in the same room as a person who would not feel awkward.

"And this is Ouin." The boy blinked, one eye green and one eye blue.

He cooed sleepily.

"Would you like to take a look?" Dhanya asked, wanting to show her children off.

They were special. She knew they were.