Thunder Dome DO NOT come near me

The girl arrived as a bundle of plush gold fur, slick and dark at first, and after nesting against her mother's belly for a time she dried and seemed to soften. She did not make a sound for a long time, seemingly content to sit between her siblings; it wasn't until she grew hungry that her little mouth opened. She squeaked, or something close to that, before shuffling nose-first against the coarse hair of Pali's rotund belly. The squirming took a lot out of little Iris, who calmed and stilled only when she ran out of energy. She was new to the world and did not have the endurance yet to handle it, but that would change quickly enough.