Safe Boundaries

Walk | Talk | Think

Movement jostled the stubborn boy where he lay but still he refused to budge. Keiki and Warja were waking and rising around him, stretching the sleep from their bodies, and all the while he continued to lay sprawled on his side, the only stretch he made being one to fill the empty space of the den that was now afforded to him. In no way was he an early bird or a morning person, and often times, as now, he was the last up and out of the den. Laziness his father called it. Eirik just loved the feeling of being able to sleep in which ever position he wanted without kicking or hitting or nudging someone else, and he took advantage of the empty den every chance he could get.

His rosy pink eyes were still closed as he breathed out in a sigh, absently listening to the shuffle of his sisters' paws as they left him to go answer their father, though after a moment, likely in which Rune must have figured out his boy had not reacted to his initial wake up call, he heard the large grey male speak up again, this time more sternly than before. Even in his pretend state of sleep Eirik wrinkled his nose and clenched shut his eyes. Darn mornings and them being so busy. At least that half a minute counted for something.

Grumbling quietly to himself - quiet enough, he made sure, for Dad not to hear - the grey pup with the black ears and paws grudgingly rolled onto his stomach and dragged himself to his feet, taking a moment to stretch and loosen up as both sisters had earlier. Ah, that felt better. With a shake of his growing frame, Eirik finally ventured out of the den and over where Rune, Keiki, and Warja stood. His jaws opened in a wide yawn and he closed them with an audible click as he managed a wag of his tail and a curious smile. "Start what?" he asked, only catching the tail end of the conversation that had been taking place outside without him. What was his dad going to start doing?