Darkness surrounds her. It presses onto her from all sides, leaving no room for wiggling. She doesn't like it, but something holds her back. Not yet, it whispers at her.

So she sleeps. She's not sure for how long exactly, but in the end, it doesn't matter. When the feeling finally goes away, it is immediately replaced by another. Break free and find your freedom, it roars at her, it's voice now much more urgent and needy.

With only a little hesitation, she does just as the feeling in her head tells her to do. She kicks out, once, twice, ten times, a hundred times. It's a long process, but finally, after a while, she hears a crack. Trickles of light pour in, causing her to shy away momentarily.

The slight fear was soon replaced by boundless curiosity. It is with caution that she once more resumes her break for freedom, and before long, she gains it as her prison cracks in two, and the world opens up to her.

There's a loud rumble above her, the sound somehow managing to be utterly terrifying and yet also sounding so filled with affection and warmth. Her neck cranes upward as she takes in the sight of a massive lizard a scant few meters from her.

A chirp escapes her mouth almost unconsciously. In response, the giant lizard licked her with a tongue that looked and felt far more mammal-like than it had any right to be.

Before she even realized what had happened, she was suddenly being herded by what she now assumed to be her mother (or maybe her father? She took a quick sniff and quickly realized that, yes, this was indeed her father) into said parent's embrace. What followed was a thorough washing session, filled with almost cat-like purrs emanating from both her and her caretaker.

By the time she was finally washed enough that the critical eyes of her father were satisfied, she was tired and hungry. She made her feeling clear on the matter by whining loudly, much to her father's distress.

Her father nuzzled her even more with the occasional lick mixed in. Despite that, her whines slowly turned more and more pitiful as her hunger made itself all the more pressing as the minutes passed.

Suddenly, both of their attention was grabbed by a flapping sound coming from above them. In unison, their heads tilted up, taking in the sight of another reptile (with wings!) circling above them slowly, some kind of... two-headed wolf with six legs grasped tightly in its hind legs. Her father screeched loudly, but not enough to actually hurt (The same feeling as before whispered that his screech could be so, so much louder, and so much more painful).

With a suddenness that somewhat stunned her, the reptile (Dragon? Drake? Wyvern? Wyrm? Something in her mind suggested) abruptly flew down in an almost straight line, not crashing painfully only thanks to a last-minute stop by using its massive wingspan to create a huge amount of drag.

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Her two parents spent a few moments screeching at each other, licking and nuzzling affectionately. When they were finished, her mother waddled over to her, repeating the same actions her father had earlier and giving her yet another tongue bath.

She found that she didn't mind, her hunger being temporarily forgotten in the face of her curiosity over her newfound parent. She chirped happily, sloppily trying to lick back (Gross, a voice within her said snidely, but she ignored it).

After a little while, though, her hunger finally reared it's head back. and she began whining once more. Her mother didn't seem fazed though, as she simply dragged the wolf carcass over to her, offering it to her while also nuzzling her face.

She didn't even hesitate as she ripped into the fresh kill, blood, and gore splattering across her face and neck as she took huge chunks out with each bite. The carcass was bigger than her by quite a bit, and yet, by the time she was done, only the bones were left. which she happily gnawed at, enjoying the feeling of her teeth scraping across the suprisingly tough material.

She felt a thrill of energy entering her, gathering within her chest. It wasn't a lot, and yet, she still felt it. The sensation was so alien that she actually got scared for a moment before a warm, fuzzy feeling spread through her, practically making her melt in happiness.

Her parents both seemed satisfied and after a short exchange of chirps and quick nuzzles, her father took to the skies in a single leap, his front 'legs' unfurling to the side to reveal two massive wings which he used to great effect.

She finally took the moment to observe her surroundings, her scatterbrain-levels of attention having prevented her from doing so earlier. They were in a rather large and flat clearing, stony and with bits of ice and snow here and there. The sight surprised her somewhat, especially since she wasn't feeling cold at all.

Her curiosity was such that she started wiggling out of her mother's grasp, waddling over to said ice. She stared at it like it contained all the answers to every mystery out there in the universe, and after a long, protracted staring contest, she licked it.

It wasn't bad, but it wasn't all that good either. Annoyed with the ice, she resumed her exploration, sniffing anything and everything. There were miniscule patches of moss here and there which she nibbled on before swiftly deciding they tasted like crap. Other than that, there really wasn't much around them. 

When she tried to go to the edge of the clearing, which was akin to a slightly raised wall, her mother swiftly intervened, gently grabbing her by her neck (How? She wasn't a cat, her mind supplied, though she ignored it) and bringing her back to the center of her little home.

It wasn't long before she settled down, the fuzzy feeling emanating from the middle of her chest helping quite a lot with that. Before long, she was deep asleep. Small, purring sounds came from her mouth as she felt her mother rest her large head right next to her.

Meanwhile, her mother amusedly watched as her child slept, basking in the shared presence. It only took a few minutes for her to fall asleep as well.