Hides the sun, lies the snake | Open, Intro

[Onyxdreams]

~ ☼ Sat within the much warmer interior of the nursery, covered in as many blankets as she could convince the queens to give her, Onyxkit stared out at the rest of the world outside. In the month since her birth, she had only been outside the nursery a few times, enough that she could have counted them on a paw...or maybe two, she wasn't very good at counting still. She wasn't very good at a lot of things just yet, speech was still a bit hard to get down, all the different words and meanings, the pronunciations, it was hard, and slow work. She had come out of her egg a lot better than these other newborns in a lot of things, because of her not-cat half, already grown and matured more than those her age from the moment of her hatching. Hunting, survival, it came naturally to her, but a lot of other things were taking time to learn, to get down to habit, it still took her a few seconds of thinking to puzzle out others sentences, but she was making progress.

Watching some of the other kits outside, so much different in appearance from her, playing around, having fun, she wanted to join them, to go have some fun out there, but the cold would bite into her, sap her of her strength. The first time she had gone outside she remembered that the queen that had been watching her at the time had been worried, about her sluggishness after the short venture, the tiredness that had crept through every inch of her being. It turned out, the cold wasn't good for her, but that was fine, she didn't like the cold anyways, she much preferred the heat of the nursery, she just wished that everyone else would play inside more. Maybe she could get one of the queens to play with her? Or better yet, maybe if her father came by, they could play together! He seemed sort of sad lately anyways, it might make him feel better if he had a bit of fun, what was the word...ah, happy! Happy, she could be happy, and he could too, they could play games all day once he got here, but....until then, she was stuck here, bored out of her mind under her blankets. Should she get more? She already had enough, in fact she had more than she needed, but she liked the warmth they provided, and another one would just make it even better right?