Warmth is the first thing she knows. Her mother is warm, a great mountain of heartbeats and thunder, food and love and soft breath. Siblings she knows only by degrees, for she can neither hear nor see. She has a brother, and a sister, and when she finally opens her eyes she is shocked that they look nothing like her and mother.
Their fur is black, and dark, much different from the brilliant reds and yellows of her own. Mother has blue eyes, and so do her siblings, but she has green -something she can call hers.
When she is old enough to go outside, everything changes.
It is she who sees the first creature in white, she shrieks and dives behind mother - her eyes are sad, when she looks down at her daughter.
"Those are men. Soon you will be far from me, little one. Do not be afraid of them."
But she is, and the 'men' watch her day and night.
