Moonspear twilight

The pups were allowed outside now, but Ran had been kept inside all this time. She had finally mastered using her three good legs to sort-of-walk now; after weeks of trying to stand on her deformed left front leg she'd adapted and was now no longer putting pressure on it. That eleviated some of the pain she experienced from it, and she seemed less noisy now; partially because she had learned to take the pain off the leg, and part because she had grown used to the remaining pain and realised instinctively from the reactions of her parents that she shouldn't be so loud.

So far her father had kept her inside, but today Ran found herself the only one awake in the den near sundown while she practised how to walk. Her mother was asleep too and, knowing that any of her siblings could wake up at any moment now, Ran wasted no time to take a peek outside of the den. To her relief her father wasn't there to growl her back this time and she took a few shaky steps out of the den while her left front leg stuck out forward, though the stump at the end with the single toe was held folded back out of fear of falling on it and hurting it.

The light outside wasn't that blinding, considering the sunset was beginning to settle in, and with wonder Ran looked around her, taking in the foresty area around her with an open mouth and a wiggling tail of excitement.