Post by Pavane on Jun 1, 2012 18:19:39 GMT -5
Lexus brings his new pups Olathe and Haiza out of the den, and they meet their cousin Niyt!
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It finally happened. All the time spent waiting, wondering and a great deal of largely unhelpful pacing and questions from Lex during the event last night has resulted in puppies! Puppies! Lex is a dad. That's weird. It makes him sound all responsible and stuff. Letting Rayen take a well earned break he's taken the two little pups to the mouth of the den and lounges there, licking and grooming the little bundles of fluff...or seeing what they look like if he licks their fur at a funny angle, it really depends on ones point of view.
One of the said pups was all sleeping, up into the sudden licks across her fur that is. A sharp whimpering whine escapes Olathe and the pup wiggles about, little paws batting out at the air a few times in the process, because that would totally stop the attacking wet tongue.
Oh, Niyt surely wasn't going to be long in arriving. Not with the wind carrying whispers of news - not that she hasn't been a frequent visitor anyhow. The blind female trots along to where her uncle's made his den, her ears perked and listening to - is that a little puppy whimper she hears? Niyt wuffs a greeting!
Haiza has barely worked out what's going on. She knows only that there's something wet nudging her around and it smells like not-mum. A few times she makes an attempt to catch, flailing her paws and squeaking until a sound from small not-mum, aka Olathe, distracts her and she sniffs that way with a little whine back.
Aww he woke a pup up. Being very new to parenting indeed Lex stops the moment he hears the whimper and returns a little worried one of his own, checking Olathe is alright with a few snuffles. Logically he knows he's not likely to have hurt a pup by licking them but this is his daughter, she whimpers he panics for a second, worried everything's gone wrong. It's then he luckily hears Niyt and keeps from imagining every little problem that could happen ever. He barks back and thumps a little rhythm with his tail, he's been looking forward to spreading the news "Niyt! There are puppies!"
Olathe lets her little front legs paddle into the air as if that would make the licking stop! But.. it /did/.. She'll have to try and remember this. Though now something is snuffling at her an another sharp puppy whine escapes her, an then another as her sister's flailing paws wind up hitting her. HEY..
Niyt smiles, and her tail wags, because puppies! "How wonderful!" She pads closer, ears perked and nose a-twitch for the subtle scents and little sounds that are near-newborn pups. She leans in to nuzzle Lexus first, licking at his cheek, then spreads her paws to either side of the little puppies and lowers herself down, listening to them flail and giggling. "Eager little ones, aren't they?"
Haiza hit something and it made a noise! The wonders of exploring a new world. She yaps back and paws at Olathe just to see if she'll do it again, her paw coming nowhere near half the time since still being blind doesn't help. Her paw slows down after a moment. There's something new here. Well, something other than the hundreds of something new's she's already come across. She flails a paw at Niyt but misses by several feet.
Lexus returns a nuzzle to Niyt and relaxes a little, at least just enough not to worry when the pups seem to be starting to hit each other anyway. He chuckles quietly but keeps an eye on the pair "We always figured they'd be full of energy, they just don't have a lot of places to put it yet. The noisy one is Olathe, the not so noisy one but very flailing one is Haiza" no use pointing for Niyt after all.
Olathe seems to grumble out as she is hit again, another puppy whine escapes her and she goes about failing her frontpaws out towards that thing that is hitting her, which would be her sister.
Niyt nods to Lexus, and giggles. "With you and Rayen as their parents, how could they not be?" Full of energy, that is. She tilts her head, listening back and forth to thumps and squeals, and leans her head in with a slow, careful motion toward little Haiza. Here's the new something, coming in to say hello! Nosebump! Also, paws hitting her nose. Hee.
Haiza squeaks at the nosebump and flails back a couple of times before she tries to eat Niyt's nose! It takes a moment for her mouth to even find it and even then it's in no danger of anything but a gumming before distraction! She whines at being hit by her sister and starts flailing back all over again!
Lexus' tail never stops ever as he huffs a loving little sigh and sticks his muzzle between the pair to break up their little war "We live in fear of the day they learn to run!" he replies to Niyt with a laugh. If they end up anything like their parents they'll be fast and possibly not so keen on stopping to stay still. With the variation in Lex's family they could be anything though, he's yet to decide if that's potentially worse than bundles of fluffy energy.
Olathe feels something warm leaning down near that fluffy hitting blob of fur over there near her. A forepaw reaches out to half bat and poke at Niyt's cheek a few times. A soft yip escaping her once she is smacks again by her sister..
Niyt is so gummed. With such determination, for the brief moment until Haiza is distracted. She giggles, and gives the pup a lick before turning her head and licking at Olathe as well. "They're adorable," she assures Lexus with a grin and happy sways of her tail. "Though I've no idea how you and Rayen are going to keep up with them. At least they can /only/ run in two directions at once!" Because, variation in the family or not, so far... these puppies certainly seem on the energetic side!
Haiza keeps attacking with her paws for a moment, not realising that it's not Olathe since dad's moved in the way to get attacked instead. It doesn't seem to matter really, she only pauses for a moment before trying to chew on dad's cheek instead.
Lexus doesn't mind getting attacked, it'll be a long time before such things have any chance of hurting so he lets Haiza carry on and grins as he tries to nudge Olathe closer to Niyt again with his nose "They don't get cuter than this" he's really hoping all puppies are really this energetic.
Olathe ponders this new thing she is nosed up against, a soft gumming is given to dear Niyt's cheek. Along with a soft little puppy squeal escapes her. Yes indeed the sister pair is very energetic!
Niyt laughs, nuzzling Olathe as she's puppy-attacked. At this stage, the only danger is making her keel over from sheer adorableness! She nods to Lexus, and asks in a moment in between nuzzles and gnarms, "And how is Rayen doing?"
Haiza only really gets fur in her mouth and soon decides it's not very tasty, so once more she bats at dad with a paw, only this time she mostly ends up pushing herself over by accident. Her flailing becomes an attempt to right herself again as she yaps in confusion.
Lexus smirks at the pups and takes advantage of the helpless state of Haiza to give her a quick lick, he's sure she'll right herself soon, or he'll nudge her back over again. He chuckles at the pair of them as he talks to Niyt "Resting, understandably. She's in the den, it seemed best to move these pair out a bit or she might have had to wait until they ware themselves down again before she got any sleep"
Niyt laughs, and nods. She nudges Olathe again, nosing under and around the puppy as she gets chewed on. "Good. She'll need that rest, with these two!" Another nuzzle, and a brief wrestle around, before Olathe flops on her side and Niyt lifts her head again. "Perhaps Tariro will bring his daughter soon, and they can play together," she says, and smiles. "Or maybe Ute has some pups." Puppies play, adults... share the pupsitting!
Haiza whines at the lick but fails to catch the offending tongue and keeps twisting and squirming until by sheer luck she manages to right herself. She yaps happily to her victorious triumph and as she hears the talking again she finally remembers the new something from what seems like so long ago to her little mind. She directs a squeaky little yap at Niyt.
Lexus watches the scene contently and is more than happy to let his daughters gang up on Niyt while he lies there peacefully. Rayen has more reason to be tired but she wasn't the only one up all night, not that he'll ever complain. A sleepless night is well worth the playful little pups "I bet Tariro's daughter would get on well with them. He only has the one doesn't he? She'll need some play mates. Seems a bit far to take the pups all the way to Ute though" he's been busy worrying about his own family, he's a little behind with the news.
Oh no! Niyt is attacked from both sides! By two, count 'em two, adooooorably cute little balls of fluffy fur with fierce gums! She giggles, nuzzling over at Haiza as well, playing with the pair. She may not have working eyes, but she'll most certainly watch the little ones, oh yes! She nods about Tariro only having one pup, then goes, "Well -" before getting distracted for a bit with playing. "Ute was attacked. They ran, and - oh, that's right, Olathe. Squeakylathe! - and they're by the waterfall now."
Olathe wiggles about and soon yawns out as she settles herself down there leaning against Niyt and getting nice an comfy. An't that cute!
Ahh! Attacked again! Evil nuzzles! Haiza whines and bats her paws back before wiggling her way to the new something that is Niyt. Gnaw, chew, paw, she's a scary little pup!...Only not because really it's just cute.
Lexus' voice shows a trace of worry, it's hard to get too worked up with the pups playing or looking sleepy around Niyt but he has to find out what's going on or he'll make up something worse "The waterfall?...That's very close...What attacked them?" He considers another pack a threat in addition to whatever attacked them but concern for his pack and family above others has always been Lex's way, it's how he grew up. Concern for Ute may come later, if he's actually face to face with them.
Awww! Olathe got herself all tired out, isn't that just adorable? Niyt goes awwwww, and is distracted for long enough for Haiza to wiggle her way over and start the f'rocious assault. So fierce. Awwwwwwww. Niyt noses in at Haiza for a bit before answering Lexus. "Dogs. A pack of dogs. We haven't seen any signs of them here, though." Not yet, at least.
Olathe did indeed get tired out! A soft mumur escapes her as she shifts and wiggles as she keeps herself happly pressed against Niyt. A ear twitches while she goes about dozing.
Haiza paws at the attacking nose again and wriggles around. A nice soft spot against Niyt, on the other side from her sister, seems to distract her though and she makes a token effort of gumming at the fur there but flops out and doesn't seem about to move again for at least a few minutes.
Already they prefer their cousin for a pillow! Traitors. Lexus can't help but smile, the news that the dogs are apparently far away reassures him and watching the pups calms him down the rest of the way. He even joins in with a wide yawn, them dozing is making him feel tired. He shakes his head sharply to wake himself up but ends up resting his chin on his paws anyway as he talks "Good. Everything can stay perfect a while longer then"
Niyt does indeed have soft fur. Not so fluffy as her father, but... she's perfectly acceptable for snuggling against. As Olathe and Haiza prove! Hope she didn't have any plans, 'cause there are sleeping puppies now. ...we'll see how long it lasts before they're tumbling romping puppies again. Niyt smiles to her uncle, and nods. "There are clouds on the horizon, but... the sky's still bright. We'll enjoy it."
Olathe is indeed traitor! Niyt is all fluffy an warm after all.. A faint little puppy snore escaping her eve.
Haiza is still awake! Barely as it's nice and comfy whatever the weird thing she's lying on is. She continues her gnawing but with as little effort as possible, eventually she'll drop off to sleep too but at least for now she can try to eat her bed.
"Darn clouds" Lex mutters, half asleep himself, the long sleepless night finally catching up with the old wolf now the pups are settled and it's not just him to look after them. Yep, Niyt better not have had things to do because now Lex has fallen asleep too.
With her cousins asleep and nearly so, and her uncle taking advantage to nap himself, Niyt smiles and starts to sing a quiet lullaby. One her mother sang for her, and then for her brother. She's got nowhere to be that could possibly be more important than here.
~Little wolf, close your eyes
Look no more at the skies.
Little wolf, put down your head
Now has come the time for bed.~
Olathe wiggles slightly though as the song starts she gets rather relaxed. A soft murmur escaping her and she cuddles up against dear Niyt. An't this cute!
Cute, indeed. When Rayen emerges from the den, she'll be hard-pressed not to aww, what with Lexus with his nap of righteous exhaustion and the two little puppies curled up to either side of Niyt, the finest of pillows and singer of songs.
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It finally happened. All the time spent waiting, wondering and a great deal of largely unhelpful pacing and questions from Lex during the event last night has resulted in puppies! Puppies! Lex is a dad. That's weird. It makes him sound all responsible and stuff. Letting Rayen take a well earned break he's taken the two little pups to the mouth of the den and lounges there, licking and grooming the little bundles of fluff...or seeing what they look like if he licks their fur at a funny angle, it really depends on ones point of view.
One of the said pups was all sleeping, up into the sudden licks across her fur that is. A sharp whimpering whine escapes Olathe and the pup wiggles about, little paws batting out at the air a few times in the process, because that would totally stop the attacking wet tongue.
Oh, Niyt surely wasn't going to be long in arriving. Not with the wind carrying whispers of news - not that she hasn't been a frequent visitor anyhow. The blind female trots along to where her uncle's made his den, her ears perked and listening to - is that a little puppy whimper she hears? Niyt wuffs a greeting!
Haiza has barely worked out what's going on. She knows only that there's something wet nudging her around and it smells like not-mum. A few times she makes an attempt to catch, flailing her paws and squeaking until a sound from small not-mum, aka Olathe, distracts her and she sniffs that way with a little whine back.
Aww he woke a pup up. Being very new to parenting indeed Lex stops the moment he hears the whimper and returns a little worried one of his own, checking Olathe is alright with a few snuffles. Logically he knows he's not likely to have hurt a pup by licking them but this is his daughter, she whimpers he panics for a second, worried everything's gone wrong. It's then he luckily hears Niyt and keeps from imagining every little problem that could happen ever. He barks back and thumps a little rhythm with his tail, he's been looking forward to spreading the news "Niyt! There are puppies!"
Olathe lets her little front legs paddle into the air as if that would make the licking stop! But.. it /did/.. She'll have to try and remember this. Though now something is snuffling at her an another sharp puppy whine escapes her, an then another as her sister's flailing paws wind up hitting her. HEY..
Niyt smiles, and her tail wags, because puppies! "How wonderful!" She pads closer, ears perked and nose a-twitch for the subtle scents and little sounds that are near-newborn pups. She leans in to nuzzle Lexus first, licking at his cheek, then spreads her paws to either side of the little puppies and lowers herself down, listening to them flail and giggling. "Eager little ones, aren't they?"
Haiza hit something and it made a noise! The wonders of exploring a new world. She yaps back and paws at Olathe just to see if she'll do it again, her paw coming nowhere near half the time since still being blind doesn't help. Her paw slows down after a moment. There's something new here. Well, something other than the hundreds of something new's she's already come across. She flails a paw at Niyt but misses by several feet.
Lexus returns a nuzzle to Niyt and relaxes a little, at least just enough not to worry when the pups seem to be starting to hit each other anyway. He chuckles quietly but keeps an eye on the pair "We always figured they'd be full of energy, they just don't have a lot of places to put it yet. The noisy one is Olathe, the not so noisy one but very flailing one is Haiza" no use pointing for Niyt after all.
Olathe seems to grumble out as she is hit again, another puppy whine escapes her and she goes about failing her frontpaws out towards that thing that is hitting her, which would be her sister.
Niyt nods to Lexus, and giggles. "With you and Rayen as their parents, how could they not be?" Full of energy, that is. She tilts her head, listening back and forth to thumps and squeals, and leans her head in with a slow, careful motion toward little Haiza. Here's the new something, coming in to say hello! Nosebump! Also, paws hitting her nose. Hee.
Haiza squeaks at the nosebump and flails back a couple of times before she tries to eat Niyt's nose! It takes a moment for her mouth to even find it and even then it's in no danger of anything but a gumming before distraction! She whines at being hit by her sister and starts flailing back all over again!
Lexus' tail never stops ever as he huffs a loving little sigh and sticks his muzzle between the pair to break up their little war "We live in fear of the day they learn to run!" he replies to Niyt with a laugh. If they end up anything like their parents they'll be fast and possibly not so keen on stopping to stay still. With the variation in Lex's family they could be anything though, he's yet to decide if that's potentially worse than bundles of fluffy energy.
Olathe feels something warm leaning down near that fluffy hitting blob of fur over there near her. A forepaw reaches out to half bat and poke at Niyt's cheek a few times. A soft yip escaping her once she is smacks again by her sister..
Niyt is so gummed. With such determination, for the brief moment until Haiza is distracted. She giggles, and gives the pup a lick before turning her head and licking at Olathe as well. "They're adorable," she assures Lexus with a grin and happy sways of her tail. "Though I've no idea how you and Rayen are going to keep up with them. At least they can /only/ run in two directions at once!" Because, variation in the family or not, so far... these puppies certainly seem on the energetic side!
Haiza keeps attacking with her paws for a moment, not realising that it's not Olathe since dad's moved in the way to get attacked instead. It doesn't seem to matter really, she only pauses for a moment before trying to chew on dad's cheek instead.
Lexus doesn't mind getting attacked, it'll be a long time before such things have any chance of hurting so he lets Haiza carry on and grins as he tries to nudge Olathe closer to Niyt again with his nose "They don't get cuter than this" he's really hoping all puppies are really this energetic.
Olathe ponders this new thing she is nosed up against, a soft gumming is given to dear Niyt's cheek. Along with a soft little puppy squeal escapes her. Yes indeed the sister pair is very energetic!
Niyt laughs, nuzzling Olathe as she's puppy-attacked. At this stage, the only danger is making her keel over from sheer adorableness! She nods to Lexus, and asks in a moment in between nuzzles and gnarms, "And how is Rayen doing?"
Haiza only really gets fur in her mouth and soon decides it's not very tasty, so once more she bats at dad with a paw, only this time she mostly ends up pushing herself over by accident. Her flailing becomes an attempt to right herself again as she yaps in confusion.
Lexus smirks at the pups and takes advantage of the helpless state of Haiza to give her a quick lick, he's sure she'll right herself soon, or he'll nudge her back over again. He chuckles at the pair of them as he talks to Niyt "Resting, understandably. She's in the den, it seemed best to move these pair out a bit or she might have had to wait until they ware themselves down again before she got any sleep"
Niyt laughs, and nods. She nudges Olathe again, nosing under and around the puppy as she gets chewed on. "Good. She'll need that rest, with these two!" Another nuzzle, and a brief wrestle around, before Olathe flops on her side and Niyt lifts her head again. "Perhaps Tariro will bring his daughter soon, and they can play together," she says, and smiles. "Or maybe Ute has some pups." Puppies play, adults... share the pupsitting!
Haiza whines at the lick but fails to catch the offending tongue and keeps twisting and squirming until by sheer luck she manages to right herself. She yaps happily to her victorious triumph and as she hears the talking again she finally remembers the new something from what seems like so long ago to her little mind. She directs a squeaky little yap at Niyt.
Lexus watches the scene contently and is more than happy to let his daughters gang up on Niyt while he lies there peacefully. Rayen has more reason to be tired but she wasn't the only one up all night, not that he'll ever complain. A sleepless night is well worth the playful little pups "I bet Tariro's daughter would get on well with them. He only has the one doesn't he? She'll need some play mates. Seems a bit far to take the pups all the way to Ute though" he's been busy worrying about his own family, he's a little behind with the news.
Oh no! Niyt is attacked from both sides! By two, count 'em two, adooooorably cute little balls of fluffy fur with fierce gums! She giggles, nuzzling over at Haiza as well, playing with the pair. She may not have working eyes, but she'll most certainly watch the little ones, oh yes! She nods about Tariro only having one pup, then goes, "Well -" before getting distracted for a bit with playing. "Ute was attacked. They ran, and - oh, that's right, Olathe. Squeakylathe! - and they're by the waterfall now."
Olathe wiggles about and soon yawns out as she settles herself down there leaning against Niyt and getting nice an comfy. An't that cute!
Ahh! Attacked again! Evil nuzzles! Haiza whines and bats her paws back before wiggling her way to the new something that is Niyt. Gnaw, chew, paw, she's a scary little pup!...Only not because really it's just cute.
Lexus' voice shows a trace of worry, it's hard to get too worked up with the pups playing or looking sleepy around Niyt but he has to find out what's going on or he'll make up something worse "The waterfall?...That's very close...What attacked them?" He considers another pack a threat in addition to whatever attacked them but concern for his pack and family above others has always been Lex's way, it's how he grew up. Concern for Ute may come later, if he's actually face to face with them.
Awww! Olathe got herself all tired out, isn't that just adorable? Niyt goes awwwww, and is distracted for long enough for Haiza to wiggle her way over and start the f'rocious assault. So fierce. Awwwwwwww. Niyt noses in at Haiza for a bit before answering Lexus. "Dogs. A pack of dogs. We haven't seen any signs of them here, though." Not yet, at least.
Olathe did indeed get tired out! A soft mumur escapes her as she shifts and wiggles as she keeps herself happly pressed against Niyt. A ear twitches while she goes about dozing.
Haiza paws at the attacking nose again and wriggles around. A nice soft spot against Niyt, on the other side from her sister, seems to distract her though and she makes a token effort of gumming at the fur there but flops out and doesn't seem about to move again for at least a few minutes.
Already they prefer their cousin for a pillow! Traitors. Lexus can't help but smile, the news that the dogs are apparently far away reassures him and watching the pups calms him down the rest of the way. He even joins in with a wide yawn, them dozing is making him feel tired. He shakes his head sharply to wake himself up but ends up resting his chin on his paws anyway as he talks "Good. Everything can stay perfect a while longer then"
Niyt does indeed have soft fur. Not so fluffy as her father, but... she's perfectly acceptable for snuggling against. As Olathe and Haiza prove! Hope she didn't have any plans, 'cause there are sleeping puppies now. ...we'll see how long it lasts before they're tumbling romping puppies again. Niyt smiles to her uncle, and nods. "There are clouds on the horizon, but... the sky's still bright. We'll enjoy it."
Olathe is indeed traitor! Niyt is all fluffy an warm after all.. A faint little puppy snore escaping her eve.
Haiza is still awake! Barely as it's nice and comfy whatever the weird thing she's lying on is. She continues her gnawing but with as little effort as possible, eventually she'll drop off to sleep too but at least for now she can try to eat her bed.
"Darn clouds" Lex mutters, half asleep himself, the long sleepless night finally catching up with the old wolf now the pups are settled and it's not just him to look after them. Yep, Niyt better not have had things to do because now Lex has fallen asleep too.
With her cousins asleep and nearly so, and her uncle taking advantage to nap himself, Niyt smiles and starts to sing a quiet lullaby. One her mother sang for her, and then for her brother. She's got nowhere to be that could possibly be more important than here.
~Little wolf, close your eyes
Look no more at the skies.
Little wolf, put down your head
Now has come the time for bed.~
Olathe wiggles slightly though as the song starts she gets rather relaxed. A soft murmur escaping her and she cuddles up against dear Niyt. An't this cute!
Cute, indeed. When Rayen emerges from the den, she'll be hard-pressed not to aww, what with Lexus with his nap of righteous exhaustion and the two little puppies curled up to either side of Niyt, the finest of pillows and singer of songs.