The exuberance and the differences amongst her pups had made the world a marvelous place. She loved watching them, sometimes for hours, simply quietly observing their habits and blossoming personalities. Jax was growing quickly, no doubt he would be the tallest of them all one day and with his serious gaze she worried about how light his heart might be, but he always watched out for his siblings. Embla was almost equally serious, but in a different manner. She was her little observer, for while she was often the quietest she never missed anything that went on in the world around them and always seemed to thirst for more knowledge. Constantine, her little ray of sun, rolled and played happily as them all but there was a concern behind his icy blue eyes that often gave her pause. And of course her two-toned daughter Bastille, never far from trouble and more often than not the cause of it all. They had become her world, her personal sun to revolve around as she was to her Moon.

They were their own universe.

As she gazed in to the loving eyes of her heart-soul she pushed the rest of the world from her mind, worries of motherhood and all else faded into the background on this glorious day. It was like old times. They were like yearling pups themselves, bounding around and causing a general ruckus and even unearthing a coven of birds from the tall grasses. Church raced after them for a moment, jaws snapping playfully at their feathers as they quickly flew out of reach before coming back to her Moon’s side as they neared the river.

She waded in, looking at him expectantly and even poking fun, hoping to being out the youthful side of her often serious love. All it took was one mischievous glint in his eye to tell her that she had been successful. She saw his muscles contracting, his body readying, she was in tune to every detail of his body, yet as he leaped over her smaller form she couldn’t help but stare in slight amazement. As he landed the spell broke and she let out a loud, barking laugh. She moved deeper in the water, to where it came up to her slender shoulders yet he was still out of reach and his taunting soon proved his intentions.

Without a second thought she sprung forward, landing with a surprising splash despite her smaller size in the water next to him. Her slender legs churned the water, swimming around Ragnarok once with a huge grin plastered on her face. As she pulled up alongside him, at once almost at eye level thanks to the water, she climbed halfway over his back. After only a moment her front paws for slung across his shoulders giving her almost unlimited access to his ears and neck which she immediately took to nipping at relentlessly all the while laughing without a care in the world.