Wheeling Gull Isle and begged you not to leave

There was too much energy all around her. It coursed through the atmosphere within the whelping burrow like pulses of electricity, and sensitive little Luli picked up on it with ease. She shook with the discomfort at her mother's belly even as her siblings settled to nurse, overwhelmed by hunger and uncertainty and fear.

Unsure how to handle it all, the koi did what she did best: she parted her tiny jaws and wailed.