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The back room was dark, now. It had always been dim, but now, after the waters soaked and ruined the floor, even the dim sun of a light didn't hum to life anymore. The massive, warm beasts that had come before to play with the little pinklets had disappeared, and they were alone, in the dark.

Their mother had given her tiny life to feed them, when the beasts stopped coming... When the quiet sun ceased that almost comforting, incessant hum. The silence was deafening. The three siblings they'd had had fled already... Disappeared into the unknown. And suddenly, their aloneness was as frightening as the silence and the dark.

With only one another, the last of the breeding, the runts of the last litter of pinklets the monster-gods had helped produce, realized that if they did not find food, they would starve. Without the companionship they had grown so used to, they would wither.

Together, they were strong, but they wanted more than just each other. Friends. Family. Others to snuggle up with, when it got cold, and something to do on a regular basis. The back room was safe, and they were sure there was clean food there somewhere.

"But really... What good is safety and security if we don't know what's out there? There's gotta be others..." Budda muttered from his little corner, next to his sister, looking for her opinion at the matter. "We should go look... See what Mama's world was like..."

Redai rubbed her paws together worriedly. "I Know Budda, and we will need more food and water soon, but still." She looked anxious. "What if there are enemies out there?"

Budda sighed and nodded. "It is perhaps a chance we must take." He murmured softly. "We've food here, but water will be harder to find, if we don't start looking soon."

"If we follow our noses we can find it, don't you think?" She asked.

He nodded. "We will still have to go beyond our room, eventually, Redai. Or whatever dangers we might face without will come to us..."

"Oh!" She lifted her head, nose questing towards the door to their place. "I would rather find them on more favorable ground.... "

Budda nodded and sighed, patting his sister's shoulder softly. "We must find out one way or another, and I would rather not wait." He muttered the last part, but smiled softly at the chocolate-drizzled fae. "We can always keep close to home and hurry back if things sour."

The pat comforted her. "I guess we shall go then brother.... " She smiled back at him softly. 'yes, we can return if we need to, a place to retreat."

He smiled and nodded, pushing the broken ratwheel up against the corner again, where it would sit still while he climbed it, with his sister's help, and she with his, once he was above, on the cage's edge (Which would make the little plastic box tilt, as it always did, until the opposing end hit the bottom of the shelf above, which always made climbing out a little easier.) "I'll go first, so you needn't worry if things are unsafe."

Redai smiled happily. "Thank you brother." She held the ratwheel still for him and joined him outside, pausing for a moment to look back, before turning to look ahead. "You first brother, I'll support you."

He smiled and patted his sister's head gently. "You are always there when I need you, Re." He purred, smiling up at her. "Watch the box's bounceback." He offered, before angling himself and hopping for one of the cornerposts of the shelfrack to slide down it, keeping his pace slow and his tail coiled lightly around the comparatively large pipe-material as he skidded down it, to await his sister at it's trunk, in case she needed help.

She made sure her tail was out of the way at her brother's warning, and watched the path he took down, following after dexterously. She dropped down next to him lightly and looked around. Everything had a different perspective from different angles, it was one thing she enjoyed experiencing. Timidly she took a step or two along the bottom of the shelves towards the crack of the door where the water had come from, and where some fresh air came now, looking back for Budda.

The brute smiled when his sister joined him, rubbing her nose with his own in greeting when she arrived, and let her go first when she let her paws and her nose guide her, following along after with a smile at her mild boldness. "We might be able to get under the door." He started working at the door, to attempt to wriggle under the heavy device.

"Oh right, you mean I might be able to fatty." She grinned and shoved his shoulder playfully, flattening herself to crawl into the crack. Her whiskers twitched as her nose quested forward leading the way. She squirmed her way through, but stopped seeing some light before her, uncertain.

He curled back his lips at her as he worked at the opening, pressing himself to the floor to try to slide easier. he paused in his little squirmy struggle when his sister did, glancing sideways at her. "It's okay, Redai..."

Redai met his gaze for a second, then squirmed her way out into the light. She looked around quickly, searching for danger, before turning back to see if her brother needed help. Her ears continued to twitch and her whiskers quivered a touch alert for danger.

Budda lay his head on his paws for a minute, chuckling at his sister's momentary shifts in personality. "Might... Take me a minute..." He muttered, before he tried a cat's stretch, plopping out from under the door after a few long moments of scratching (And leaving marks in the soggy linoleum), he set to straighening his fur, and looking around, slowly moving over towards... Anything else in the massive world that now lay before the pair, curiously. "... It's... Lookit, Redai! It's huge! I... I could explore for days and not see it all!" he purred, grinning as he looked around, slowly wandering out from the door a touch, remembering at some point to look back for his sister. "C'mon... Let's look around..."