Burrow

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Prologue
Evelyn finished eating the last of her berries, and began going into her burrow... she was a badger, after all. There was a small, wrinkled fodder blanket, and there was small greasy golden tattering all around the blanket. Evelyn sighed, and thought, This is it, I'm going to give birth.

She would've been the first badger in Jamaa to give birth. They were undiscovered creatures, and there were very few of them.

Evelyn padded over to the small fodder sheet, and laid her soft little russet belly onto the sheet of yellow, and peered down at the small lump on her belly, and began straining.

Sweat cruised down her cheeks, now a shade of bright amaranth. But she had to keep trying.

Suddenly, blood leaked out of her belly and soaked the fodder bright red. Slowly, one by one, five small baby badger cubs began rolling out, their heads covered in blood, and they were wounded. One of them had a black eye.

Evelyn opened her eyes, her stomach aching. She was glad the pain was over, and scrutinised the badger cubs. They all began slowly opening their eyes, and smiled merely at their mother, then closed their eyes again. The only one that didn't open their eyes was the smallest one, with the black eye.

Evelyn checked all the cubs' genders, and began coming up with names at the top of her head. "Liam," she muttered, pointing at the biggest one. "William," she mumbled at the one that was sucking it's tiny little paw happily. She peered at one that was sprawled across her paws. Benji, she thought, looking at its chubby little face.

Evelyn got to her paws, and walked over to the other side of the burrow, where the smaller cubs were. They were both girls. She started with the slightly bigger one, who had a smile plastered on her face, and was very beautiful, in Evelyn's opinion.

"Lacey," she muttered, slowly and carefully. Then she reached the one with the black eye. She found this name almost instantly.

"Ah," she replied, looking at the small cub. "I think you're going to be Bliss." Evelyn beamed at her, and replaced the fodder blanket with some clean straw, and gave herself and the cubs a nice bath.

All of them were asleep at the time, and Evelyn was more happy than ever.

At around 8 o' clock, when the cubs were snoozing on the fresh straw, Evelyn wanted to go tell Mira and Zios, knowing they would be proud. But they weren't around anymore. Maybe I could tell the alphas... she thought, but then paused to stare at the cubs, because she was sure she saw Bliss open one eye and wink at her.

She turned her head again to concentrate washing off the blood off the fodder, and then boom. Bliss had teleported right in front of Evelyn.

She dropped all the fodder in fright, staring at her like she was about to go and kill someone. Bliss opened both eyes, and touched a claw to the the eye that had a blackcurrant-coloured ring around it, and with a small sparkle, the black eye faded.

Evelyn couldn't do much but watch in awe. She had to tell her husband, Baxter. But she knew that he was doing night shifts at Coral Canyons, working for 8 hours, and he always came home utterly exhausted.

Bliss leapt up on her shoulder like a little parrot, and began chanting, "Mira and Zios come back, Mira and Zios, but they didn't hack, Mira and Zios, if you please, come to the mother who hates blue cheese."

Evelyn was shocked that Bliss just happened to know all these crucial facts, and suddenly a small, ghostly shadow of Mira and Zios appeared in front of them, like fireworks. Evelyn began to feel light-headed, and it wasn't long before she fainted.

Chapter One
WIP