Moonspear carry on phenomenon

He awoke and smacked his lips as he looked around with a sleepy expression on his face. He saw Ame depart the den and watched as one of the dark ones noisily followed — he guessed it was Alya, who was the loudest of the bunch so far. Charon yawned and stretched his front legs when one of the other dark ones caught his attention. The expression on her face was comical, almost as though she was worried when she whimpered.

"What's wrong? You can go on outside with mama," he instructed, though knowing they (probably) didn't understand much of it yet, except for perhaps 'mama'. He nosed Lyra's bottom to get her moving, and chuffed to let Hydra and Korei Julia know they were headed out, too. After nosing Lyra out of the den Charon slipped out too to make space for the other children. It would soon be time to move to a rendezvous site and offer them more freedom -- however frightening that sounded to Charon, to let his little girls go more often -- and it was definitely getting time to get them bantering around outside so that they could meet with the pack soon.