perfect princess

The Empress’s white gloved paws carried her back to the palace after a short patrol around the shrine’s borders. Patrolling the islands was much different, their borders were the sea and much more heavily defensible than a regular border. Visitors, raids, threats, they all came in through the shrine. A reason she was grateful that her home was placed on the middle island of the archipelago. The palace was one of the safest places in the Empire, at least from outside threats. The ocean and the weather were entities of their own, and both could and would threaten the pack and its residents. Especially her young children.

The five of them were vibrant, eager, and full of life. They were passionate about their freedom and abilities. Venom just worried they would think too highly of themselves and find trouble at their door. Especially her first born son. Kuroki was a wild boy, eager to prove himself with an ego three times his size. She shook off the thought, he was brash but he was also smart, and the young mother was determined to allow him to grow despite the danger he could find himself in.

She did have one puppy that didn’t often frighten the life out of her, Venom’s sweet daughter Ikigai. The child was a perfect little princess, everything she could hope for in a child of the Empire and a child of her own. Venom entered the palace, slipping by the thick pelt that protected the inside from the rough ocean winds. The young mother sought out her oldest daughter, bright sunset gaze took in the main hall as she arrived there, wondering if she’d find her daughter in one of the usual places.