you don't have to like each other, but

Zee had kept a careful eye and ear on her children, and though they thought they explored alone there was always someone nearby. Bast and Marshal had been invaluable, as had her viper. It had not gone past her notice how well Azure, Indy and Asla played together... and how Mortis and Azure had been recently at each other's throats.

She loved each of them equally, and valued family above all else. While Sirius might have taken the stance that the pups should toughen up, Zee wished for them to grow stronger with the help of each other. That couldn't happen if her two oldest were stuck in a feud already when they'd hardly left the den.

The alpha tilted her head back and called for her boys, a stern howl that insisted they respond immediately no matter what it was that they were doing.