release the chaoslings

The past month since he'd found the pups had not passed particularly well for Chaos. Obviously, Valkyrie had not taken the news well, and Chaos had been nursing a new set of scars from that initial confrontation. She'd also kicked him out of their den, so he'd needed to slink off to find somewhere else. What with everything, he really hadn't had time to dig out a proper den with the ground so frozen, so he'd been living in a better-roofed, warm corner of the barn. Which was ok, he guessed, because it kept him closer to the livestock and he'd needed to use a goat to feed the pups on for a while. It was a pain in the ass though so he'd resorted to the great wolf trick that no one wanted to talk about but everyone did - which is to say, horking up half digested meat for the pups to eat meat before they were old enough to eat it on their own - a lot sooner than most. He'd built up around his corner with old planks and woven together saplings to make it basically a separate little straw-filled room with a tall doorstep to keep the midgets in and be able to... well, kind of hide the shame of being kicked out and effectively sleeping on a couch at the office. He'd stayed out of Valk's way and kept the pups out of her way to avoid rubbing it in as much as possible, but unfortunately it was definitely time for them to get out of his hair and go run around bothering everyone else. He'd thought single-parenting his and Leto's kids had been hard, but he hadn't had to raise them from birth, just from weaning. No wonder Leto had been so quick to dump Ares and Lyra on him and leave! Well, the little bastards would need to risk meeting their half siblings and his wife and her Vikings eventually, so there was no time like the present. Popping his head into the den he'd built there, he surveyed the puppies with a worry he kept carefully concealed behind a grin. "Ok, kids, today's the day! First day out in the world! No running off now, wait until everyone's over," he added as he stepped over the barrier and grabbed up the first pup he found and unceremoniously plopped them over the barrier until all five were deposited on the straw on the other side.