a healthy dose of puppy

Zee's children were giving her the absolute hardest time imaginable, and between Asla's near-drowning, Azure's bullying, and Mortis' suicide attempt the new mother was stressed beyond belief. Other people's children were not this crazy, were they? Was it something they inherited from their slave-turned-warlord father? Or worse, from her?

She did not remember Deathbelle's litter causing so much trouble, though she supposed they may have and Zee as a servant wasn't let in on it. Lucretia and Bourbon had just had a litter as well, their pups were a little older than her own. She went out in search of them, to meet them officially and perhaps gleam some insight on whether how her own litter acted was abnormal or not.

"Hello?" She called out as the scents strengthened, unfamiliar to her but the tell-tale 'dog' smell enough to tell her that they indeed were nearby. "Anyone here?"