You feed Trantor on the same schedule as Odis
But the little guy is always hungry
You don’t mean hungry as in bestis baby hungry
You mean stomach growling and crying hungry
So you rig together a portable feeding station a surgical tube and a pacifier
Trantor finally seems to get his fill
But 30 minutes later
The stomach growls starts
And Trantor once again suckles away at the pacifier
Trantor is growing and gaining weight at a healthy rate but you can’t keep enough milk on hand to satisfy his very real need for milk
You check the local shelters for any milk mares
You don’t like the idea of buying a fluffy just for milk but Trantor is in desperate need
You settle on a large older dark green mare named… let’s just say you quickly changed her name to holly and leave it at that
Holly
Was instructed to give Trantor milk every time his stomach growls
Holly was ecstatic to have Trantor as her baby
And things seem to settle down for a while
Trantor was growing at a rapid rate
He was no where near the growth rate that Queequeg went through
But he was growing big and strong at a rate far higher than a normal foal his age
Then it happened Trantor spoke
The reason this was so notable
Is because he started speaking before his eyes opened
“Mumma twantow so hungwi aw da time”
“Baby nu wowy mumma giv aw da miwkies tu dem”
A few days later holly came to you very concerned
“Baby nu tawk wike fwuffy nu mow”
You look down at holly confused
Holly was indeed correct
trantor did not talk like a normal fluffy
He still had the same pitch in his voice but his voice had a weight and purpose to it
he no longer used cutesy words
His grammar was proper
He could pronounce L’s and R’s
Still his eyes had yet to open
You would take him to the vet tomorrow
You are woken up in the middle of the night by holly’s screams
You rush to the safe room and find her cowering in the corner
“Holly what’s wrong girl?”
Holly speaks with a quiver in her voice
“Baby see pwaces scawy”
You look over at Trantor
You don’t know what you were expecting
But nothing could have prepared you for what you found
Trantor’s eyes looked like something out of an old samurai movie
Stern
Unflinching
And
Powerfully focused
