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The two adults arrived more or less in tandem. Meerkat blinked a few times as she tried to puzzle out which of them was a barf ball. In the end, she decided and declared, -"You're both ballsacks!"- before breaking off into a fit of giggles.

-"Well, they do usually come in pairs,"- Towhee quipped more to Weejay than the pup, who she reached out to tickle until Meerkat was breathless and practically about to wet herself.

Another crack of thunder and flash of lightning made them both go still. The pup slipped away from her mother's grasp and sat up from where she'd flopped to the ground, licking her lips and trembling slightly. She wasn't afraid, just awed. She had never heard anything so loud, nor seen anything so bright.

Belatedly, Meerkat recalled Weejay's words of a moment ago: "Cool, but dangerous." The pup looked up at her and wondered childishly, -"Is it a monster?"-