Redtail Rise Aquaplane

skippable!

There were only two things the dark boy prioritized:

1. Sleeping.

2. Eating.

Those happened to be the only two things he really knew either. 

The conversation exchanged by his older sibling and mother alone failed to stir him as he had drifted off, engaging in Priority 1. At his age, his hearing was not developed. Anything loud enough to register with him sounded as if it were underwater. However, his main sense, touch, enabled him to feel his mother's movement, which was enough so to bother him. What was she up to?

The answer, though unclear to him, presented itself. The youngling squirmed as pinfeathers from her meal landed on his small, dark form. One of them squarely on his nose, prompting a dramatic sneeze—right on his littermates.