Stavanger Bay the girl the size of a gumdrop

“Oh,” is all she says at first, grey eyes dropping down to look at the puppies. She’d been around them since their birth but her interaction has been limited for one reason or another. Her interest in them hasn’t been too involved but to be fair, they didn’t really do anything. Even now, all they do is wiggle and eat and wiggle some more.
 
At first, the girl does not move. The fear of getting too close settles in and she flicks her gaze upward to her mother for encouragement but eventually she scoots herself a little closer. The position seems awkward, directly across from the mother, and she doesn’t exactly know where she needs to put her legs in order to lay back down. Qilaq turns a half circle so that her head is pointing the same way as her mother and she lowers her rump to the ground and readjusts her front, placing her paws around them.
 
There’s a sudden, weak squeak muffled beneath one of her paws as she settles down around the puppies.