Moonspear cosmos, free beat

For a moment, it seemed the girl was about to quieten down, her whimpers growing softer and softer as she rested her head against the larger being's chest. That was until it vibrated gently. An odd, soundless rumble that reverberated to Lyra who had pressed herself so close her mother that she had felt it through her thick fur. It had been the instinctive warning snarl of Amekaze upon Floki's appearance but the pup, rightly, had no idea what was happening.

She resumed her wails, pushing her forelegs against where she had been lying just moments before. She paused as something touched and preened her fur but then tiny features crumpled into a strained frown. With her mouth opening and closing like a fish, she cried at the one who held her as unopened eyes turned unknowingly up at her mother.