Redsand Canyon I will love you until the last breath leaves my body

The aroma of blood and sweet new life fills the chamber. Ruenna sits with her babies held close. She is surrounded. Her tired voice fills the space as she quietly bestows names upon her newborns, although they cannot hear her.

Cornelius is small, with gray furs matted by fluids. There is a muddy quality to the grizzle he wears and a dark masking to his face. There is a similarly colored child beside him, and then a pale girl - siblings he cannot see or hear.

He feels them, though. Gasping breaths, he looks utterly pathetic, and makes tiny sad sounds while seeking something to fill his belly.