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// Chapter 5 
// Story: Princess Malia 
// by Creativa-Artly01 
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A few days later, while she's out on her morning fly, Princess Malia sees a crying infant skunk squirrel and goes down and picks it up and takes it back to the castle in her hooves. Once in the castle, she puts a little diaper on the skunk squirrel and gives him a bottle of baby formula. She then names him Skunky. The Princess cares for Skunky for several more days before he's back to full health and then takes him to the Preservatory after researching that he is a nearly extinct species. Once at the Preservatory, she puts him in a small habitat along with several other nearly extinct tiny species. She then watches as the little skunk squirrel makes friends in a pinkameen mouse. After making sure he's happy, Princess Malia flies back to her palace. 

Back at the palace, Princess Malia goes out into her garden and sits down on her bench. There she begins to hum to herself yet again as she picks up a fallen pink flower off the ground. She sighs as she holds it close to her. Pink flowers were something her mother loved before she died. She then takes the flower inside and puts it in a vase of water above her throne. She then goes off to tend to her sons before the family portrait that is scheduled to be taken this afternoon. 

A few hours later, the Princess and her sons pose for a family portrait which is soon shot and taken by the changeling photographer, Utice. He then takes another two hours and frames the portrait and gives it to the three royals. The three thank him then return to their daily activities. The young princes go back to playing their games and Princess Malia goes off to her garden once again before going off to the Preservatory to double check on Skunky. After all, Skunky is still a baby and needs to be checked on every so often for the time being.

At the Preservatory, Princess Malia peeks through the bars of the habitat and sees that Skunky is doing just fine and is playing with the other small rodents. She smiles at him for a few minutes before flying away. Right now, she has to get back to the palace in time for a meeting with her dear brother, King Capillan of the nearby kingdom, Capital.