make me feel alive

It had been only five days, but Thistle felt a little cut off from the outside world. She didn't really mind, but she didn't really know what was going on outside of the little ones that suckled at her and whined and squealed in their sleep and awake. She looked down at them, they couldn't move very much and they couldn't see or hear, but she felt them adorable regardless and truthfully she reveled in them everyday as they learned new things.

Thistle heard her husband and since the pups were currently well sated and sleeping soundly, with ein being on top of the two of course he would be. She smiled softly at them and moving gently so she did not jostle or wake them. She tucked the deer hide around them gently and tightly so they did not get cold or notice her absence. She would need to ask Ragnar to maybe find some more animal pelts for smaller animals. She worried often.

She slid from the den mouth, her belly still shrinking in size. She licked his face and nuzzled his neck and continued on past him to sit across from him. She sat down gracefully to her haunches.