Stavanger Bay Some legends are told

@Liyani

In the wee hours of the morning, a beetle had infiltrated the den in its search for somewhere warm. That beetle had become the victim of Kevlyn's wide paw.

For you see, Kevlyn's new sight allowed him to appreciate cause and effect in a way. Though his brain was still too soft and spongy for him to comprehend consequence, he was able to understand that hitting the beetle sometimes made it move faster and sometimes made it stop moving for long seconds.

The boy didn't have enough strength in his legs to cause the beetle any serious harm, which was fortunate—he wouldn't have understood if it permanently stopped moving. He poised himself over it in an unsteady crouch, with one paw lifted above it, ready to strike down once more to see how it reacted. So far, it had tried scuttling away from the puppy half a dozen times, and had stopped moving four times. Each time it moved, Kev followed it in an uneasy toddle, then whacked it again.

Fall Out Boy — Centuries

Since I don't want to kill their new toy just yet, let's assume she doesn't squish the thing when she falls forward. :p

Liyaní’s new sense of sight had opened her mind to a whole other world of exploration. Everything that her feeble mind had previously known had abruptly shifted upon the opening of her eyes. Now, she gazed out into the confines of the den with milky blue eyes that drank in everything but hardly understood any of it.

Her mouth had been her main tool for discovering before she’d been able to see, and that seemed unlikely to change; Liyaní put her mouth on everything – toes, the heads and appendages of her siblings, pebbles, you name it. So when a beetle found its way into her family’s abode, it should have come as no surprise that the tiny girl wanted to investigate it.

Kevlyn seemed to have already claimed the insect as his toy, but that didn’t stop Liyaní from wobbling towards him and issuing a curious mewl of surprise when she first saw the object of her brother’s interest. She craned her neck towards it, but the motion caused her to lose her balance – her body wasn’t accustomed to shifting weight with ease – and she tumbled forward haphazardly onto the beetle.

A shift in the atmosphere occurred when Kevlyn's keen eyes caught a shadow moving at the edge of his periphery. His head turned slowly until Liyaní was ambling into his line of sight. Immediately he went on the defensive, hovering over the insect as though to hide it from his sibling, but Liyaní kept on coming and he bailed at the last second. He had already learned through trial and error that she was wont to plop her gummy mouth down on his head if he didn't move. It was gross and he automatically moved away.

But when Liyaní reached toward the beetle with her nose and then toppled right onto it, Kevlyn's voice rushed out in an anguished cry. She'd eaten it, hadn't she? Bereft with the loss of his toy and rowdy as ever, Kevlyn launched himself at his dark-haired sister, ready to gum her ears until she spat the beetle back up or otherwise returned it to him.

As if her accidental tumble hadn’t been traumatizing enough, the small girl was startled once more when her brother propelled his pudgy body onto hers. She, too, loosed a cry of her own as she felt Kevlyn’s squishy puppy weight nearly knock the air right out of her lungs. In all the commotion Liyaní forgot about the beetle that had been her focus only moments before until it scurried out from underneath her.

It was getting away! The insect seized its opportunity to make its escape while the pups wrestled. Liyaní could see it from the corner of her milky blue eye, but Kevlyn prevented her from pursuing it. The inky Ostrega whimpered and wriggled beneath her littermate, determined not to lose her and her brother’s new toy so soon after he’d discovered it.

Kevlyn succeeded in pressing Liyani into the floor, but she produced no beetle from the depths of her mouth. As though wishing to pry it out of her, the fat boy placed his paw squarely on her snout, but before he could apply any pressure, a subtle change in his sister followed by the feeling of her trying to wriggle free stole his attention.

Instinctively, he followed her gaze, and that's when he saw it. Aha! cried a little part of his brain in triumph. He quickly removed himself from above Liyani and began to lumber clumsily after the beetle, which was scurrying away from him as fast as it could. It was noble to try, but the beetle had nowhere to hide, and if the pups learned to coordinate somewhat, it would soon have nowhere to run.