Arrow Lake endrega drones

with their exploratory phase ramping up - something that would go on for the next several months - the sandraudiga brood were finding themselves less and less impressed with the immediate area of their densite, and more interested in wherever it was their parents often disappeared to for subjectively long periods of time. it was becoming increasingly difficult to keep them reined in, but the cubs were obedient enough after a bit of firmness, and besides this, neither parent were inclined to deny them much. 

stigmata guarded them now, in the clearing before their den, and he was completely alone with the four ruffians, as takiyok seized a much needed break. and each of them, still nameless and not yet fed, were wired up and begging for punishment - scrabbling, gnawing, and rumbling over one another like crabs in a barrel despite all the space they had been given... it clearly wasn't enough, and suddenly he thought it best to exhaust them all with a short jaunt into the woods. 

rising from his sphinx position - which automatically called the attention of the pups, who were ready to prevent any brand of progress at a moment's notice - stigmata looked briefly over their stout, bulbous faces, and then motioned for them to follow. a simple, muted gesture that caused a sudden frenzy of activity.

right away, the first-born (@Stag) nearly ran ahead of him, and the fair-headed twins (@Monarch and @Mesa) were hot on the collared boy's awkward heels, neck-and-neck themselves. the three of them went noisily in all sorts of directions, giving stigmata immediate whiplash as he tried to keep them within a few tail-lengths of him, but thankfully they were not all so brazen; as proven by the last-born, and large darkling of the clutch (@Ego), who kept close and kept quiet the entire time.

@Sadiq