Northstar Vale I want to drive away with you.

assuming this is AW -- let me know if not okay!

The days went by in a blur. Not that she had any concept of days—it was more a shapeless blob of time, oozing onward. Eat, sleep, poop, pee, cry, blind-deaf milk worm wrestle. Repeat, repeat, repeat. It was easy. It was simple. It was peaceful.

The dreams were a different story, but we'll get to that later.

Lilitu wriggled against her mother's belly, having just finished nursing and now making her way toward her mother's face. She slipped through the slim forelegs and up the chest, butting her snout against Ibis's chin with a small boop. If she were a kitten, she would have purred; as it was, she curled quietly (for once) in the curve of the young woman's throat, enjoying the delicate warmth there.

She felt a pulse. It mirrored her own. How wonderful and strange this existence was!