let sleeping babies lie

Zee had been cleaning out the den while the puppies slept, and the door to the room where they lay was opened while she passed back and forth through it to grab supplies and sweet smelling herbs. She'd hardly heard the girl's approach, though visibly flinched at the sudden yell that now echoed throughout the den. Her eyes widened and she spun her head towards the pup's room, where the children had abruptly awoken. They'd only recently found their paws and ever since had been nearly impossible to keep from wandering, and at Venom's shout they'd got to their feet squeaking madly and maneuvered out the makeshift door out towards the entrance.

If what Deathbelle said was true, the crown princess would surely have to learn how to act around children. Perhaps sometime soon the Empress' den would be filled with tiny paws, and Venom had to learn the number one rule of little ones - don't wake a sleeping baby. "Now look what you've started." She began, giving the girl an amused smile and gesturing with a paw towards the clumsy pups. "Help me round them up, would you?" There was no danger for the pups in the larger main room of the den and Zee knew they'd not be hard for her to regroup when she held their precious milk... but it'd be a sight to see the near-yearling trying to gather them, and Zee was short on amusement while spending so much time in the den.