it started back at the beginning

Zee was resting peacefully, enjoying the pups now fully weaned. Her body was her own again for the most part, and without having to wake every few hours to feed them she was finally able to get in some deep uninterrupted sleep. If she had been less exhausted the new mother would have woken to the pup's squirming away, their hushed whispers, the bowl dropped upon the ground over the barrier. It wasn't until tiny gleeful howls sounded outside that she was pulled from her dreams, one eye opening lazily to glare out into the sun.

From the corner of her gaze she could see the sleeping forms of Mortis and Azure, but the two brightest colored pups and most easily noticeable were not there. Her head shot up and she awoke fully, wide eyes searching the den for the brilliant purple and tan children. Standing quickly she made her way to the barrier (growling under her breath at the makeshift stair) and leaped it.

The sounds and smells of puppies were not hard to follow and Zee had little issue tracking the tiny beings towards the water. The nearer she got the more her heart clenched with worry and the faster she ran. Indigo she saw first, and she followed his gaze towards the flailing tan and gray pup in the water. "Indy, stay there!" She commanded firmly before going after the girl. The water was not horribly deep and came up just to Zee's ankles, but for the small undersized pup it could be a death sentence. She grasped the pup's scruff and drug her out of the bay, plopping her down beside her brother.

Zee exhaled a long, relieved sigh as she looked down at her two troublemakers. "Grounded. Both of you." Her eyes narrowed in the barest glare before her resolve broke and she moved down to wrap them both in her arms, placing a kiss upon the top of her wet daughter's head. Too much could happen outside the den when you considered predators, intruders, storms and now the ocean. If it were up to her they'd stay in their den for the rest of their tiny lives. "You just wait until your father hears of this." The protective titan would likely die of fright if he'd been the one to stumble upon the waterlogged pup.