Firefly Glen the warm sunlight on my skin.

When her mother's attention was at last drawn to the movement of another, Luli turned her dappled crown to follow her sea glass stare. She gaze out across the glen, curious but undoubtedly anxious of the dark figure that picked it's way across the clearing toward her family. In typical Luli fashion, the koi ducked her pale tail and crept closer to her dam to seek comfort in her proximity. 

The raveness did not arrive alone. At her heels came a quartet: black, gold and silver. Luli stared toward the strange cubs with wide-eyed wonder, intrigued but fearful, focus trained entirely on the Ostrega quarter even as Huā offered introduction on her children's behalf.

Real terror gripped her when the Empress stepped away, revealing young Luli to be stared at. At once she shrunk a little further, even more so as the ashen-furred girl strode forward boldly to greet them. "Hi," she managed to return in a pitiful little voice, well aware that these pups were in no way threatening to her but unable to shake the fear of exposure.