Proverbs 22:1

His presence was enough to offer her comfort to her ailments and she relaxed comfortably beside him as his excitement seemed to grow more eager. He offered questions that she had mentioned already to Lucretia, not long after it was confirmed she had conceived. It was still too early to tell anything for certain, but Belle felt like she had a tiny army growing in her womb. She leaned away from him for a moment, to better exhibit her growing belly. She gazed down towards her abdomen like she had so many times already, trying to imagine the pups within.

”At least one.” She chuckled amusedly. ”Luce thinks it might be a large litter.” She tried to keep the nervous emotion from her words, but birthing a large litter of large puppies sounded like an ordeal and a half. If this was to be her price to pay for her superior brood then so be it. She prayed the price wasn’t too high.

Servants. Like she had Sirius Belle hoped that her own offspring would be awarded such loyal subjects. They would need to find or obtain similarly aged pups to pair them with. Zee had mentioned wanting to have a litter.. She put her handmaiden from her mind as Archon continued and mentioned names. Belle’s ears lowered humbly as she looked back up towards him and aimed to nuzzle against his chin.

”Its perfect.” There would be no disagreement about their names, Klein came first in the order of things, and they would hold their Abraxas lineage in the high esteem it deserved. ”What about individual names?” The Empress had a couple picked out so far, but wanted to hear if Archon held any ideas.