Redhawk Caldera (M) Turn on your record player and run into a world of beautiful collaboration.

Fennec helped where she could in the ensuing chaos. Mostly she just stayed at Towhee's side and provided a relatively calm presence. She was excited and perhaps a little nervous but her face betrayed none of it. Mostly she listened, muttering reassurances that she wasn't sure her mom would catch, but they were kind of for anyone in the vicinity. And when the puppies began to come, she gave each one a pretty good once-over after Towhee had finished.

They felt tiny. And they were loud, holy shit. Fennec's ears twisted back as two immediately set to squalling. It wasn't so bad when one piped up but two were a bit much. Telling your newborn siblings to shut their yaps immediately on entry probably wasn't the best look for a big sister but... tempting. Oh so tempting.

Instead Fennec settled in next to Towhee and felt some of the tension leave her own shoulders as she did. Whatever her mom had just gone through, it sounded horrible. She intended to stick around to monitor, to guard, and to generally fetch for the next little while. Reyes and Rue would doubtless do the same but she knew it was sometimes not just this easy.

All the while she kept quiet. She'd never been around for this before, and it was heavy, witnessing (kind of?) new life for the first time.