Verdigris Ravine i'll be your mother and i'll hold your hand

Yay! <3

If loneliness was a concept he understood, the boy did not feel it. In the absence of littermates, it was the wild thrum of an ever-present heartbeat that kept him company while he drifted in a world of stillness and comfort that left him wanting for very little. He knew not of the incidents that ailed his mother in the outside world, nor why she stole into the night to reveal the cub to the world in secrecy.

It was there in the solitary cave that his own life was thrust into turmoil. A long, confusing ordeal that ended with a single, piercing cry as he took in his first breath.

It was silenced just as quickly as loving swipes of a tongue revealed the tiny dark replica in his mother's form, with blue eyes yet hidden behind unopened lids, mirroring those of the father he'll never know.