Hideaway Strath here for evermore

Nothing really sticks with him until Mallaidh does, and it is literal - she gums his paw and he can't figure out the feeling and what it means. It is not right, of course, it is a new thing from the comfort of nursing, or sleep, or even the relief he feels from being stimulated by his mother. He wiggled a bit, moving from one small spot to the next but he did not make much progress. Still his sister grip him hard and he could not make her loosen her hold - above him, there was another range of sensations. Sounds, ones he did not hear but felt in vibrations and he turned his little head towards his mother without realizing it. He'd completely forgotten his sister's suckerfish treatment of his appendage, he was too caught up in the attention bathed upon them.