Stone Circle Sleep, pretty darlin’

It seemed there was little to be known about the litter until it came. He pondered this, wishing there was some way to get answers to his questions all the while feeling fairly certain that puppies couldn’t be counted while still inside their mother. 

”I will be brother to all of them,” He assured Gunnar, so that he knew that all his children- no matter how many or what gender they were- would be loved by the growing boy.