Moonspear blinking in the starlight

Unable to focus on anything else in her tiny world, Vela worked away on her young face. In hindsight, these actions would only intensify the irritation around her eyes. But, at her young age, this is something that the pale Pi would come to understand. As far as she was concerned, she was doing everything in her power to alleviate the oddity that currently plagued her normally sunny existence. 

The tender drive of her mother's lick came unexpectedly, and though she usually would have appreciated the gesture, there was something off-putting about the saliva that was left in the tongue's wake. She squirmed suddenly, her round forelimbs reaching for nothing in particular as she let out a dissatisfied mewl in an attempt to let Amekaze know just how unhappy she was.