this is our world now

Nako eyed his children, biological or not, and he couldn't help but be overcome by a sense of warm pride. They were growing so quickly, hardly two weeks ago and they were barely moving and now they were tugging on each other's ears and tumbling about. The grey male placed a lick between Ren's ears as the pup rubbed himself against his fathers ankles. "Yes he did..." Nako responded to Marina. The blue pup wasn't his but Nako reared him as if he was his own son. Shame on the parents who had abandoned him. But here the little pup had love and attention, and now had the chance to go outside as Marina asked if anyone wanted to do so. All of the pups responded in varying tones of excitement and scrambled up the entrance of the den. Marina's pups now knew freedom if but for a little while until they all had to be ushered back inside. For now Nako would watch over the brood he had a part in raising and simply be content at the sight of their multicolored forms tumbling about outside the den. A small part in a seemingly endless land for them to explore that would only get bigger as they grew.

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