#cringe lunar

Polaris shifted and whined softly in her sleep, and Lunar was instantly alert - ears pricked forward to capture the small sounds. The kitten she sounded unhappy.

He knew that he should probably run and find one of the others to come check on her, but he also didn't want to leave her by herself. What if a predator showed up?

Lunar huffed at the thought. As if anything dangerous could make it far enough inside the plex to hurt the little bean! Still…

He padded closer and noticed that the little green animatronic was trying to burrow further into her blanket.

The instinctual part of his brain lit up immediately. The kitten was cold! The kitten must be warmed!

Ok, fine. He couldn't argue with that.

He didn't have hands to pull the blanket up, but nature saw fit to cover him with a furry blanket of his own, and an internal space heater beside.

He stretched out along the baby on the side where the blanket had slipped, and in a few moments Polaris's fussing had stopped.

Lunar couldn't help purring with happiness as he slow blinked at the sleeping bundle.

He was doing such a good job at being a helpful colony member.

He didn't know when he drifted into a doze, but he woke immediately when he heard a gasp followed by the click of a camera.

"oh my gods, that's the cutest thing"

He craned his neck to see both of Polaris's parents standing in the doorway, with bigger smiles than normal plastered across their faces.

He was halfway through warning them not to post the image anywhere lest he pee on their slippers in revenge, but the warning died in his throat as he felt a small pressure on one paw.

He turned back to see that Polaris was also awake, red on white eyes crinkled into delighted crescents - the small pressure on his paw…her own tiny clawed hand.

It was a good thing that adorability wasn't fatal, or the cat may have passed away right then.

Every remaining negative thing he had worried about Polaris before she was born fled from his thoughts.

It didn't matter that one of her parents was an eclipse. It didn't matter that she probably had more magic than all of the rest of them put together, and someday might transform into a creature hundreds of times his size.

This baby was their family's kitten, and he would do everything in his furry power to keep her safe.