The Sunspire Dance

--- and then there is okeanos. 

not a delicate speck, but a clump of flesh and dusky fur, born breathing in heady floral scent that makes his first breath turn into a sneeze. 

the sneeze becomes a squall that, showing signals of a naturally good-natured constitution, quickly dispells as he reaches mother's teat, where he will remain a squirming flesh-and-fur ball for the time being.