It was incredibly amusing watching him try to figure out exactly what was going on here. She knew she was acting odd, well more so than usual, but between the hormones raging and the pure, exhilarating joy she felt at the entire situation. She couldn’t keep it in, she was veritably bursting at the seams with the news yet the idea of seeing his face as he figured it out all on his own willed her to keep it in. She released a barking laugh at his inquiry of someone visiting being the need for the expansion. He didn’t seem to have many friends that would require space and with her decision she may have burnt bridges with anyone not already in Spirane anyway. Yet still she watches him, silent laughter at her little joke shaking her golden sides lightly.

With bated breath she waited until the light caught his eyes and his face nearly exploded as he rushed toward her. An ear-splitting grin broke across her face as he actually lifted her off the ground, balancing precariously on top of him, surprisingly not for the first time in their lives. His nosing is cool against the warmth of her stomach as he pokes and prods with unbridled interest. She can’t help the fit of tinkling laughter that surrounds them, so enamored with what life had chosen to give them, even though it was something she had never really considered before. Terrible as her relationship with her parents had shattered there were still vague memories of warmth and happiness with them and the idea that she might somehow drive her own children to the same fate niggled at the back of her mind. She shoved the idea down as deep as she could, she had grown good as doing such over recent months, and focused her entire being toward her Moon as he set her down again.

Still he searched for her to chase the last doubts from his mind, that the sound of pups would ring within the dens walls come spring. She bowed before him, rump high in the air with her tail waving furiously behind her. “Yes, puppies!” she practically shouted, pulling from her bow to rush forward to him once more. She nuzzles into his cheek, golden hair merging with gray once more inhaling the scent of him so deeply. She leaves a smattering of licks there before she pulls back to meet his icy gaze once more. “You will be a father, my Moon,” she tells him, love and excitement renewing at just saying the words, “and I a mother.” On that point she was much less sure of, but it was coming to them regardless and she would do everything to be ready. “Can you believe it?” The words are almost a whisper, amazed at the change a few weeks could make between them. If the rest of her life were this amazing she might not know what to do with herself.