Swiftcurrent Creek glinda
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Exactly two weeks after his entrance into the world, Jakub's eyes opened for the first time.

It was a slow, almost reluctant retraction of the eyelids to find that he. . .was still in darkness. No! Darkness it was, but it had shape and form—texture. The dark fur of his mother and two siblings, all of them black as night.

He turned, lurching into @Nicodem and @Mae in his clumsiness, to see something much brighter in the opposite direction. Rays of light beaming into their shelter, motes of dust and pollen floating and shimmering like faeries. 

He sat back hard on his round little bottom, utterly transfixed by the sight.

His universe had grown by multitudes.
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No way it’s been two weeks! *gasp* O:

Blurry eyesight had come to Nico only an hour before Jakub’s. The boy hadn’t stirred much. The shift of his inky body had moved him into a warmer position. His full belly had made his head heavy and his newfound eyesight did not seem compelling enough to keep him from sleep.

One lurch from Jakub and the dark boy was roused from his sleep. Shadows swirled in his vision. Nicodem blinked, eyes heavy with the weight of his rest. As he turned his head to see the glimmering of sunlight that broke through the entrance of their den, the boy huffed a strong breath through his nose.

Enough of light. Enough of eyesight.

Nico squirmed toward the dark warmth of their mother.
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Mae's own eyes had opened a little early, in fact, but she had been quiet about this new development. Even at such a tender age, she instinctively held her cards close. Instead of raising a fuss as Jakub did, or rejecting it as Nicodem had, Mae had settled into quiet observation. She was learning.

Learning that brothers were annoying! In a sudden and misdirected fit of irritation she reached out to chomp down on Nicodem's elbow. It was Jakub she meant it for, but Mae hadn't yet learned how important that distinction was. One worked just as well as the other, in her view.
THIS WHOLE WORLD IS ENDING, A NEW ONE BEGINS
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They stirred and she raised from a deep slumber.

Counted each one as she touched nose to their head.

It would be in this that she realized what had happened. That eyes had opened and she too blinked in soft awe. Already? So soon?

Yet she took it in good grace as they squabbled in hushed ways among themselves.

Feast or famine. She would only intervene if they became a danger to one another.
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The commotion behind him barely registered in his mind, captivated as he was. There was something frightening about that unknown, but it was a kind of fear that sent a thrill down his spine and ice water trickling through his veins. He shivered slightly—scared and enthralled all at once.

At his mother's touch, Jakub looked up and found the glint of silver in her own gaze. He wondered whether his eyes were that same hue. He stood and reared up to bump his tiny snout against her chin, lost his balance—

And tumbled right into the middle of his irascible sister and apathetic brother.

There would be hell to pay from Mae for that.
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The touch of their mother was swiftly replaced by a tumbling sibling.

Nicodem felt distress rose from the pit of his belly. His head swung around to wobbly search for the instigator of such a fight. Jakub appeared to be pushing his paws, an attempt to fix his posture or keep their sister pinned to the ground. Nico did not want anything to do with this. His hazy vision had only revealed that his siblings were dark masses of trouble, nothing more.

An exasperated huff fell from his nose. The boy buried his face into the dark fur of their mother. He willed the wrestling of his siblings to end.