Phoenix Maplewood Nothing but dust in the shadows

Any combination of @Indra @Laurel @Shreya @Spring @Casmir, but max 3 others please! This is set obviously prior to Esaro going to Sleeping Dragon, for timeline purposes, but we can also assume it's after the second wave of visitors is welcome to visit them.

Saena lounges in the warm mid-afternoon sun, soaking up bright rays that pierced through the thick layer of leaves overhead. Her body curves so that her spine faces outward and her thinning stomach wraps around the mouth of her whelping den. With a lazy paw dipped into the darkness, Saena attempts to coax her pups out with swirls of her toes, although they would find themselves promptly penned in if any of them is daring enough to step out into the open.

So far, she's having no luck. Even shaky jerks of her paws are greeted only by Milo's discontent wails. Laurel and Indra are quiet for the time being, though she's sure that's not going to last long with their brother crying up a storm. The kid's a tantrum thrower and will sooner or later begin to thrash about at the lack of attention (nevermind his mother's attempts to draw him out), and that would result in him kicking one of his sisters. She catches herself hoping that of the two, he plants his foot in Indra's mug; it's harder now to wish ill on either of them in spite of whom they resemble.

"Come on," she croons into the darkness, still blissfully ignorant of the fact her children are still deaf and won't respond to her words, and might not even be ready to exit the den for any length of time.