Swiftcurrent Creek There's always been a rainbow hanging over your head

Dated close to midnight on July 23rd
Anyone who'd be welcome near the den is free to jump in! <3

It had been about a week now since the light coming in from the mouth of their den woke her for the first time, and she peeled her bleary eyes open to see it. The world was fuzzy and indistinct, her eyes unused to the business of seeing, but there was a world there to look at for the first time.

It was bright.

Since then, she hadn't been able to resist crawling, then stumbling, to the entrance almost every day since that first. Curiosity burned, and nothing had yet made it clear in her young mind that the outside might be more dangerous than beautiful. Her ears hadn't opened yet, but she didn't even realize she was lacking it whenever she caught sight of the outside, bright and colorful even as fuzzy as it was to her still-developing eyes. Her escape attempts were numerous and frequent, though more likely to come at night, when the light wasn't so blinding.

Tonight was no different, though there was the added factor of dull pain in her mouth which made it hard to sleep anyway. Blue eyes were wide from the moment they opened, and for the first time, she made it close enough to the entrance to see a sliver of sky far, far above. Her eyes weren't sharp enough to make out more than a see of black, pinpricked with light, but it was shocking enough to set Morena down on her bottom, and she sat and stared, jaw hanging.

Pretty.