Noctisardor Bypass Tree trivia

As she continued suckling, Druid slowly became aware of a new sensation. It began as pleasantly as the rest, a feeling of fullness and satiation. Instinct commanded her to release her hold on Sequoia’s teat, after which she pressed her wrinkled face against the soft skin of her mother’s underside and let out a happy sigh. She might slip into sleep then, utterly content.

But then she hiccuped, the motion accompanied by a little squeak. Druid squirmed a bit as her newborn brain tried to process this new phenomenon. Before it could, another came, then a third. Soon, the little whelp was assailed by them at regular intervals.

She didn’t cry, though she let out sound somewhere between a grunt and a whimper as she flailed her tiny forelegs against Sequoia’s belly. The little judders made her increasingly aware of a mounting pressure beneath her tiny rib cage. Unbeknownst to her, her small intestines gurgled tellingly.