Swiftcurrent Creek because you live to torture me, don't you?

Slight Kieran PP because I said Bazi was quite far away, so am moving them both closer. Hope that's OK, Danni!

Kieran was swift to join her, bristling with nerves. Bazi put a staying paw next to his bear-sized one at the same time as Scimitar arrived on the scene - with the children tumbling around him. Surprised dropped Bazi's jaw, but she held back any comments and clicked her teeth together. Technically, Swiftcurrent Creek had no claim on these children. They were Shadow's by blood. Bazi gave her head an agitated shake and urged Kieran forward. She had to listen to this.

She caught Shadow's final sentence: "Or give them a choice, to stay with you or come with me."

Ridiculous. They were children! Of course they would stay! Bazi withheld a triumphant smirk, and awited. The pups themselves seemed confused - Julius was quick to take cover beneath her, glaring icily in his father's direction. Relonikiv stood pressed to Scimitar, eyeing the trio of strangers with the same wary optimism he would offer any other unknown thing. And Trajan.. he had never quite settled. Mostly, he stared, as he did now. He was the spitting image of his father.