Blacktail Deer Plateau With the evening sun

Ash Paw liked plans. When she had arrived here, there had been none and though she had thought she may like the uncertainty, she had in fact hated it. Hatever every thing about it. She took a deep breath and smiled up at him. 

She met his gaze with her blue eyes, a rare vulnerability there. It's not just that reason. My pups, belong to you as much as me, as much as Sanguinex and even Syrax. Just as I belonged to the plateau, to Basilica. And you are the only one left. You have been the one constant in my life since I arrived here, haughty, proud and disillusioned. I want you to have that honor and if you so wish it, direct parentage over them.

They didn't belong to just her. She had always planned to raise her children under the thought that all the wolves of Basilica were father's and mothers and aunts and waht have you. She had meant it when she said they belonged to it, as she had.