Redsand Canyon think about what you believe in now.

aw, but only for those who would be allowed inside the den ofc <3

It had been a few days since she had gained her eyes and her tiny world had become a little less tiny. It wasn't so small to her, of course. To Liri, it was friggin' massive, and it had alarmed her at first to find it growing. But now, she was beginning to feel something akin to curiosity as she laid tucked against the warm bodies of her family, gazing owlishly at her surroundings.

Like the quintessential newborn, Liri found even the most mundane things to be absolutely fascinating. How could it not be when she had literally never seen anything before? For some, the fascination was short-lived. The mundane that had surprised and delighted upon introduction were quick to become ordinary, commonplace. Uninteresting. But for Liri, the intrigue was slow to dissipate. She enjoyed watching the world, and prior to this moment, she had been content to do little more than that.

Until, the cricket.

It crawled into view from somewhere, but to Liri, it was though it had simply poofed into existence. She stared at it for a while, her head tilting from one side to the other as he crept slowly about the den. It eventually came within a few inches of where she rested, and quite suddenly, for seemingly no reason at all, the synapses in her brain chose that moment to fire and make her wonder. Could she actually affect the world around her?

Slowly, tentatively, Liri reached out a paw towards the insect. It stilled, sensing something was happening, but it didn't move until she prodded it with a toe, at which point it leaped away from her by a few inches. Liri stared at it in utter fascination, her paw still outstretched. Had she caused that? Could she do it again?

Without glancing one way or the other, she began to inch forward, eager to find out if she could do it again.