“It is a monster, that is what is.” He screamed at her as she cuddled the small creature softly. “Leave it be, let its kind to fend for it.”
“But it called for me, it called me by my name.” She nuzzled the small creature and it mewled at her. “How could I possibly refuse it? You know the law, Khazoom Grrah.”
“The law never mentioned their kind,” Khazoom whined. “Don’t you understand what taking him means to the whole clan?”
“What the clan has to do with him?” She pulled the young monster inside of her body curvature protectively. “I will fend for him, it is none of their business.”
“How can you say that, Lupa?” Khazoom paced around Lupa and the small monster, worry and fear showing in his every move. “Everything concerns the clan, and if you take him in, he become one of us.”
“No, not really, his kind are lousy tracker, they are too loud, and too big to fit the role of a guardian.” Lupa laughed. “Plus, they have no teeth or claws to attack with, he will just spend a single winter with us, then I will let him go.”
“But they don’t grow as fast as our kin.” Khazoom came and sniffed at the small monster and jumped two feet away. “And it stinks, it smells as vile as a wound.”
“It just needs to be cleaned and fed.” Lupa licked the small pink monster. “He suckled with the rest of the litter all through the night, the poor thing was starving.”
“This is insane, Lupa,” Khazoom growled. “You let him drink your milk and nurse with your cubs? How dare you?”
“It is my call, by the law, he called my real name, the one even you don’t know, and you are my mate,” Lupa growled back at Khazoom. “I will do what I see fit.”
“But you already made him a brother to our cubs.” Khazoom howled at the new moon. “We are doomed.”
Lupa licked the small monster, and wondered if Khazoom’s wails of an oncoming doom had any merits. The small montser giggled when she licked its belly to clean. She laughed, how could such a lovely creature be anything but a blessing? Plus, his kind are called Humans, not monsters.
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Khazoom stormed out of the den, leaving Lupa to nurse the monster. He had to speak with the elders, wolf kind should not raise human kind cubs, and that was that.
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