ᴍᴇᴘʜɪꜱᴛᴏᴘʜᴇ

Call out in the middle of the night
For when else would I hear you?
Fall out in the cold starlight
I can save you if you do

You will never walk alone
You can always reach me
You will never ever walk alone

Call me Little Sunshine
Call me, call me Mephistopheles
Call me when you feel all alone
- Call Me Little Sunshine, Ghost-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Try as you might, you can't seem to find ᴍᴇᴘʜɪꜱᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʟᴇꜱ anywhere! You spend the better part of your morning searching through your territory, roaring and calling out their name in case they've wandered off. As you pass by Grandpaw ᴠɪɴᴄᴇɴᴛɪᴜꜱ, he softly calls you over and lifts up his paw, revealing the lost cub, who is... fast asleep? It seems they had a nightmare and snuggled up with Grandpaw all night. D'awww...

After some of your teenage cubs tell ᴍᴇᴘʜɪꜱᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʟᴇꜱ a scary story about undead lions, ᴍᴇᴘʜɪꜱᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʟᴇꜱ is so distraught that they've worked themselves into a panic attack. Grandpaw ᴠɪɴᴄᴇɴᴛɪᴜꜱ holds them close and tells them that he'll keep them safe.

ᴍᴇᴘʜɪꜱᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʟᴇꜱ, a little upset that their mother went out for her daily walk, is sniffling and quietly sobbing where she'd left them. Grandpaw ᴠɪɴᴄᴇɴᴛɪᴜꜱ scoops them up and pretends to nom at their belly, slobbering all over ᴍᴇᴘʜɪꜱᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʟᴇꜱ - whose sniffling and crying was quickly replaced with giggles and squeals.

When ᴍᴇᴘʜɪꜱᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʟᴇꜱ asks their Grandpaw if he'll be there forever, Grandpaw ᴠɪɴᴄᴇɴᴛɪᴜꜱ has to break the news that, one day, he'll be gone. Before ᴍᴇᴘʜɪꜱᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʟᴇꜱ can start to panic, Grandpaw ᴠɪɴᴄᴇɴᴛɪᴜꜱ promises them that he'll be watching over them from the stars, and they'll never have to be afraid because he'll always be with them in their heart.

ᴍᴇᴘʜɪꜱᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʟᴇꜱ turns her back towards you, lifting her tail up high and twitching it a bit.

Telling you to stay perfectly still, ᴍᴇᴘʜɪꜱᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʟᴇꜱ carefully removes the small piece of bone that has been stuck in your teeth for days.