It had been two weeks. Two weeks since she had birthed her first litter of pups. Two weeks since she had all but put aside her duties of leadship and tended to her duties as a mother. But that was also a part of the Lead's responsibility, was it not? To birth the next generation of the pack? It had also been granted Leotie's as well when Sven had decided to choose her to be the mother of his pups and Ravenna couldn't help but miss the woman. Though from time to time Ravenna was a little stir crazy, wanting to go out and search for herbs and check up on her members, it did not outweighed her drive to tend to her children. She exit the den only to take a quick loop, stretch her legs and then she went back in as she was content with her motherhood. She was born for it, it seemed and also her upbringing had taught her that every moment you had with someone you cared for could be the last. She would miss out on nothing.

So today she decided she would miss out on Leotie no longer. Certainly @Blitz would be back soon and Sven's scent was always near. The pair seemed to take shifts guarding the area while the other guarded the border. They worked together seemingly as well as her and Leotie did. Even Adeltra's scent lingered near who was always willing to keep an eye on the pups while the mother soaked up some sun.

Leotie's den was not far. Very close, actually and so Ravenna only took a few minutes of her time trotting over to the area she made for her own litter. "Leotie, you in there?" Sure she was. It smelt like it at least but she wasn't about to just shove her head in without knowing if she was aware and awake to know who was coming near her pups. "I just couldn't wait any longer. I had to see them for myself."

All the silver matriarch needed was that simple agreement for her to come in and she was driving down into the den. Her movements easy though obviously brimming with excitement as her tail smacked on the sides of the den opening. It was a tight fit and to give the mother and pups still breathing room, her back legs and rump remained partially outside still as she brought her upper half close in to see. A funny display for any passbyers.

"OH wow...!" She spoke firstly. The little girl's tawny patterns that looks like her mother's were already showing and there was no mistaking the boy between Leotie's front limbs with his malted silver and black. He was a beautiful display of Archer lineage. He could have also thought to look like a mix of Ravenna and Blitz mashed together or even a reminder of Enoki's pattern. "Look at those colors."

Ravenna couldnt help but grin as she looked down at her.... Her.... How would she introduce herself to these children when they got old enough to understand, anyhow? It was kind of hard to determine, if you thought about it... Sven was her age-mate nephew, son of her eldest brother. Did that make these pups her grand-niece and nephew? Was she a grand aunt at just three? She couldn't help that it made her feel old already and yet proud her family had grown so much already, even just in their own ranks. In the end, it really didn't matter. Adeltra was her cousin but she treated her as her daughter and both the litters of pups could call her their eldest sister and both Leotie and Ravenna would raise the children together, one as mother and the other as second-mother. They were just one mixed up, mingled and happy family.

"Haha..." Ravenna went on with a chuckle at Leotie's comment about their colors and not have known what to expect. "And here I figured my pups would be nearly all black like the majority of Archers, plus given Blitz... But no." She offered a smirk as her shoulders rolled at the thought. They were a mousy tan coloration when they were born and she had thought them to become darker over time but in the two weeks it only seemed like they were getting lighter, blonder. Her thoughts trailed to @Elias momentarily. Last she saw him he no longer smelt of the Aurora Heights and she figured there was no telling when or if she would see him again. Perhaps he had caught the scent of his family he had been looking for all along? Perhaps he'd found him and decided to go back home now? Either way, perhaps it was for the best.

"Avella? I like that." She spoke and as she did so, took note of the boy's name... Scully. It reminded her of Skoll and she could only expect Sven had something to do with that. To Leotie's playful touch, she smiles, her tail thumping outside the den. "They are well, the both of them. They are getting lighter in color already it seems which I wasn't expecting. They look nearly identical." Not only had their colors been unexpected, but she had not expected twins either. It was a genetic unknownly from her Lyall side. "Not sure if Adeltra already told, but their names are Ragnar and Freyja." Keeping the 'A' ending to the female's name as seemingly tradition.

Leotie spoke about having expected at least one white pup and to this Ravenna listened to quietly as she pondered. Sven's coloration and even Ravenna's own was one of rarity, actually. Most Archers were dark colors, prodominately black with flecks of perhaps silver or creams. Some of them even, like Judas and Greer were a near unblemished, solid black. Though more rare then the pale colorations of Sven and Ravenna were timber hues. As of the moment Ravenna could only recall Revon being of tawny coloration and had been told of all her mother's children, only Castiel had such pattern though Ravenna had yet to meet this brother of hers.

She smiled at Leotie's words about her pups, swelling with pride where it had already been overfilled. And then she spoke about Avella and how she had planned to keep up the tradition of the "uh" sounding ending (since of course wolves did not know what an 'A' was) and it had her thinking of herself, of Morganna, of Elettra, Adeltra, Attica, and now of course Freyja and Avella's own names. "I'm surprised we both had girls even, since boys are much more common. I'm glad though, now each one will have someone to talk to about 'girl stuff' and 'boy stuff' as they grow up." She chuckled a bit once more.

"I thought the names sounded, I don't know... Powerful?" She spoke after Leotie's comment, and trying to explain how she had felt about the names. Ravenna had a lot of different names she thought would be fitting for her future pups, though it was these two which seemed fitting for her first born son and daughter. Then her head fell, chin and throat pressing to the cool earth as she looked at the one pup not settled between Leotie's legs, Avella. Her nose went to twitching, sniffing the little girl as she looked at her with a smile in her expression.

Ravenna remained laying in her position, half in and half out of the den, nodding lightly as she spoke about how she didn't know men were more common and that perhaps the tide was changing with having two out of four pups being girls from their litters. Usually, they would have been lucky to even have one. "Yeah out of my mom's nine pups she only had three girls. One litter of three was all boys, Greer's litter." She spoke, letting her friend in on the little fact. Leotie always seemed interested in the family dynamics and how they all connected. Perhaps it was because Leotie did not have a family of her own in the Lore. No parents known of, siblings or cousins. Ravenna always assumed it was because it a young age she had broke away from her birth pack like many wolves did to explore and find their own place in the world. The only thing she had ever been told of Leotie's past was that she had 'escaped her yard and got lost'. Ravenna had assumed by the word 'escape' that perhaps home had been a bit rough on her to begin with. Ravenna never pried.

The silver woman was happy here with Leotie, offering simple chatter, wondering if the near future, their first pups adventures as they grew. She would be left to wonder if this was how Enoki and Elettra spent their times together. Though it would be a bit different, this relationship, given the fact that they would be raising their puppies together. Leotie had been given the right to breed of only because of Ravenna and Sven's related connection. It seemed fitting through that if the nephew and aunt were going to rule side by side then they would each choose someone to breed with and in this case it so happened to be the two Beta in the ranks.

Shifting her weight at the entrance, front legs stretched out before her, she wiggled, if only to try and get just a bit closer. Her head fell again onto her front paws, looking over the two colorful pups a moment longer in silence.