Rub-a-dub-dub

Lurid greeted her son and watched for a moment as the black behemoth came out of the water, the deep ebony of his coat sticking to him and showing off quite the musculature beneath. Under the guise of listening to Kichi, Lurid stole looks and glances at the red marked demon, admiring him in a rush of hormones. She couldn't help herself, the dire wolf male was handsome and Lurid wasn't one to deny herself the pleasure of looking at anything. The demoness smiled as the mad wolf laid himself down to meet her son, watching their interaction closely and ready to intervene should Kichi cross too many lines with Alastor. He tested her patience at the best of times, but she didn't think Kichi would get out of hand. The boy's arrival had succeeded in lifting her sombre mood, Lurid refusing to show her baby that anything was wrong. He had the look of a boy that didn't want to share his mother with anyone, after all it had been only them and Ilyn for the longest time. The bear grumbled at the small child, to which Lurid twitched an ear back in silent warning not to move against Kichi. Even growling at her children was punishable, though she understood when they truly needed the reprimand. Lurid has thus far shown the boy manners, though he was prone to acting in his own way. The boy made her smile brighter it seemed.

As the boy moved toward the much larger man, Lurid took a silent appraisal of how the man reacted to him. There hadn't been a purer moment from the sinister brute since he himself was young, and Lurid felt something stir in the dark recesses of her heart at the sight. The gentleness that came from the dark male was so uncharacteristic of the man that Lurid could paint him as a paternal figure, the sight of him with her child causing her heart to do somersaults in her chest. Alastor was always a surprise, and in this case, it was a pleasant one. "You know Ilyn is there to protect you, Kichi. But, I am glad you didn't wander too far from home." The she-devil smiled at her little storm cloud, watching his bravery show itself. Lurid hoped she used a bit more caution when she wasn't around, though she didn't mind him behaving this way while she was present. It occurred to her that she had been gone from Kichi more than she had been there for him lately, but that would be changing. Work was important though, and she couldn't let herself completely immerse herself in his teachings just yet. Soon enough she would be afforded the luxury of sitting still, but not now that her pack needed her so urgently.

It was cute to watch her baby make his own demands with Alastor, "Of course, he will play with you too. I don't want him pestering me all the time." Her words were delivered with a wink as she sought the onyx of Alastor's gaze, "Won't you, Alastor?" There was something hidden in the way she said his name, but it wasn't definitive. Kichi seemed so happy to have a wolf who wasn't her around, children always did like new faces. Letting herself relax into a lounging laying position, watching the boy with a warmth in that holographic gaze that was reserved for her children. She was proud of him, and couldn't get over his cuteness with the massive wolf before him. She let the boys talk for a while as she returned to figuring out what to do to get her family here.