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Eljay giggled at the pup's response as he nosed her stomach. "This one's so cute," he said, feeling a bit more at ease being here with Raven than when he'd come in and talked to mommy. He had felt so posessive over mommy then, and had felt like he was losing her to these new pups. But with Raven it was different, because it reminded him that they weren't really mommy's pups... But whose were they, really, and what would they grow up believing?

He looked up from the tummy-nuzzles to look at Raven and asked thoughtfully and hesitantly, "Do you... Who do you think the puppies will think is their mommy when they get older?" Everyone should have a mommy, but he didn't feel too comfortable thinking of his own mommy as theirs. It made him feel guilty to think of wanting to deny these adorable little beanbags a mommy, but he'd already had to miss her for so much of his life.