Mortis looked down at her sleepy form and closed eyes. Her ears still twitched, telling him she was listening. Even if she was clearly losing the battle with sleep. “It was the best” He agreed quietly. Or was it? He didn’t think he would trade a moment of this here and now for a thousand days of his childhood games.
“I’ll take you there”” He promised, but it was a whisper to a sleeping from. Grinning down at her like a fool, he rocked her gently in his paws to ensure she was truly asleep. Then, moving slowly and carefully, he picked his way into the den. Fighting back a yawn of his own as he placed her gently beside Wylan, already curled up with his siblings at their mothers side. Kissing Halo on the cheek, he wrapped his wing gently about her and the puppies, cradling them in a little cocoon of soft darkness.
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