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"Ooh, really?" he said, surprised. "That's fast, isn't it? I feel like it's fast." But maybe time had just flown by faster than normally the past weeks. He tried to calculate how old they were by now but it seemed like so much had happened since they were born, and at the same time like it was yesterday.

"Oh, yes," Eljay said, but even as he said it Raven was already demonstrating. He'd done this a lot with his younger siblings, of course, and even with the previous batch of firebirds a few times because he used to help look over them. It wasn't anything new to him. He smiled as he watched the pups flock towards the food rather than keep interested in them.

One of them continued to nom on Eljay's toe and he said quietly, "Don't miss out on the noms," while he nosed the pup towards the pile of food.