Noctisardor Bypass may i be snuggling your mom by candlelight?

Preferably just one or two others, please!

REEEEEEEEERAHGHARAAA!

Gideon's war cry warbled from his throat as he charged across the den. In his ears, still folded down and partly plugged, it was little more than a whisper, but in truth it was loud enough to wake the dead, and likely every other inhabitant with fully functioning ears.

He had found his legs in the past couple days and had already mastered them, aside from the occasional stumble. His vision was still hazy, the edges indistinct and blurry, but already he was familiar with every inch of the den, having wasted no time exploring it. From the moment he could stand, he proved to be a very active little boy indeed.

A darkling beetle skittered across the floor, warned away by the pounding of clumsy puppy paws. Gideon pursued it, undeterred by its speed and head start. He was so focused on it that he lost all sense of his own body in motion.

AAAAAAH! he shrieked again as his front paws tangled together and he pitched face-first into the dirt, twin tails flagging up over his raised rear end.