Nova Peak after him, he's getting away!

Though Swift had been desperately trying to get away, to see the world that he was just beginning to understand, his tiny body soon tired. Kaskara smiled at him as he whined and whimpered and set his chin between his paws. She grinned and lifted him, ever so gently, by the scruff, to place him back into the mouth of the den, near her own front paws.

She bathed him, removing the dirt form his legs and belly, recalling a time when she had done this for Kiv, Paar's child. She missed him terribly, and missed Paar too. All this time around babies made something stir within her, though she was unsure of what it was. Was this the blooming she had heard about, when a female was ready to mate?

She ignored it, however, and focused on this little boy in front of her, one of three nephews she would soon romp through the forest with soon enough. She smiled at the thought of Allure, named for her grandmother, and hoped she would be willing to get dirty with her. Kaskara might be female, but she was far from girly.