Her den, once so spacious to her, had been feeling more and more crowded since the pups' eyes had opened. The three of them had grown rapidly, far more rapidly than she'd expected, and she was starting to suspect that at least one of them had inherited from the dire wolf side of Cascade's family - Seraphim and Evangeline were big for pups, but Angelus was juuuust a bit bigger than they were even. The den felt like it was bursting at the seams, and the boys had managed to make Evangeline cry twice already this morning with the sun up barely an hour... not that it was difficult, or even anything they'd actually been doing. Evangeline was just a difficult child and she'd already picked up the knack for using crocodile tears to get her way. But frankly, Cascade needed a break from it! Poking her head out of the den she surveyed the area around it. Nice spring day, the sun was out, it wasn't cold or rainy. Even the snow around the densite had managed to completely vanish while she'd been den-bound, and the mud more-or-less dried up. Good enough! She'd drag the little hellions out of the den and let their daddy chase them around for a while to let out some of that excess energy. Casually, she howled for Valentine to meet her at the den - he was off doing alpha-y things, after all, but hey, he could take a break. She scootched back into the den. "All right you brats," she said cheerfully.... ignoring the fact that Vana's eyes were wet and her chin was quivering again. "Today, you're all going to get to go outside! So, out you go!" She demonstrated, slipping out of the den and into the spring air before them since if she let them go first one of them would undoubtedly have gotten themselves eaten by something before she got the other two out of the den. "Come on then!" she coaxed - not that they probably needed coaxing. ""

OOC: Here, have an annoying little angel

"BRAT," he parroted into his sister's ear. "I want to go outside! Can we go to daddy's den?" Daddy's den was a mythical thing--something he'd only ever heard of but never seen. It was right up there with packmates on the list of things he wasn't convinced were real. His daddy didn't stay in his den all the time, sometimes he was outside the family den and other times he slept in the tunnel. When he did that Angel liked to snuggle up to him, that way he could peek over him while he slept and look outside. His mom lead the way, stepping into the sunlight and then turning back to coax them out. Angel was quick to follow. As soon as all four paws were beyond the shadow of the den mouth, he stood up big and tall and announced his presence loudly so that all the outside things could admire him. "Here I am!" Now what? That was a good question--the first of many. "Now what? Can we play a game? What's that?" He pointed to a tree. "What's that?" He pointed to a rock. "Where's Daddy? Now that I'm outside do you think he'll let me patrol too?" He knew what patrolling was--it was the thing that made his dad get up really, really early and stay gone a long, long time. But really, he was asking the wrong parent. "Momma, can I patrol with Daddy?" "Talk" "You" Think

Seraphim jumped to his feet. Was Mama being serious? Oh, did she really mean it? He let out a happy little "Ya hoo!!" and begin jumping all about the den. The young boy careened into a wall and leapt over something squishy before bolting up and out after his brother. "Angelus! Angel, Angel c'mon!" He didn't quite know what he wanted to do or why he needed his brother to come along, but that could come later. He spun on his heels, trying to see if Vana was coming too, but the momentum in his little round body kept him moving right on around until he was looking at his brother and mother once again. Angel was spouting off all sorts of questions and even though Phim was trying to listen he had better things to do than learning. "Mama, I wanna go hunting!" He bolted towards her, jumping upwards and trying his best to nip at her shoulder or flank or something, hoping he might be able to get her attention. It sounded like Angelus wanted to go see their Daddy and Phim decided that maybe that would be just as good. "Talk" "You" Think