feel free to skip Isaiah and / or wake him up :)

It hadn't really been his intention to fall asleep on his way to Tiberii and Shiloh's den. It was still so strange to him to think of her as a mother - as they had all lived longer now without their mother than with her. Although he had certainly not gone without, considering that his older sisters had all done their best to keep him and Cassius tended to. In many ways he was more theirs than he had been their parents' now.

It might just have been his bitter feelings towards his father, really, that made it just so easy to consider not belonging to the Vaès at all.

He'd been determined to try and offer the young parents a reprieve from time to time, but his first attempt had ended up with him just sitting down before the sun had really risen, and next thing he knew he was dozing. Eden's sharp echoing bark into her den didn't even disturb him, though an ear did flick. It might have just been an annoying fly though.