I want to feel your heartbeat

Zee had spent quite a lot of time surveying their territories-to-be, ensuring they recovered well from the volcano's wrath and keeping tabs on the prey population as well. It didn't hurt to mark a few trees either, so that any brave rogues who stumbled in didn't decide to make the uninhabitable land home before the Armada could claim it officially. While she'd explored it in depth, she'd never seen Sirius so deep within it. When she caught his scent on the wind the new queen's chest clenched uncomfortably, expecting fully to find her husband stuck in a hole or chased by wildfires. He wasn't an explorer, he had no business endangering himself so soon after being free of his den rest.

She followed his scent into a hand-made den, stopping short at the closed door protecting the deeper tunnels. Her eyes narrowed suspiciously and Zee began to pace at it, wondering what reason her warlord would have to close off half of a potential den. Was his brute strength not enough to keep enemies away? His scent lingered and she knew he was behind it, and so Zee stepped up to the barrier and cleared her throat loudly to announce her presence to the male.