Wheeling Gull Isle I've still got so much love hidden beneath this skin.

As the second day bled into a third, still Luli failed to thrive as her siblings did. If one were to look upon such a tiny and scrawny little thing among much larger littermates, they would be sure to think that that the end would come for her sooner rather than later.

Some might even wonder if it would be kinder to help her along in such a direction, as it was clear how she struggled.

But she tried. Albeit quietly, little Luli did her best to hold on.

She awoke that evening with the force of a sneeze, the loudest sound to have come from her since being thrust into a whole new existence. Startled by the sheer force of this unfamiliar body function, the peachy newborn responded with a fearful whimper.