[Abyssopelagic]

"Oh, er, um." Dimtail wasn't quite sure what to do with a kitting queen. After the third had been born, he quickly came over and cleaned the amniotic sac off the kits before they suffocated, careful not to pierce or puncture it. Once the kits were cleaned, he moved them to an out of the way spot in the nest so she wouldn't accidentally squish them as she writhed.
"Don't eat plants you don't know what they are or what they do," he gently scolded the queen. "You don't know what it'll do to the little ones."
Ince the third was born, he glanced up to her, apprehensive. "Does that- is that all of them? Do you know?" His mouth tasted foul from cleaning the newborns.
@SparrowSoar