[ooc: I promise I haven't forgotten this thread. :( Trying to go through the house buying process and this medical stuff is just wrecking me. I hate being this slow.]

Gladio does take the offered chance to sniffsniff at the hand, but his tail gives a wag when Noctis laughs at his lick. He has no idea that, much like the notion in his own head, his father fully intends to spend the night tucked up beside his king, watching over him protectively and keeping him warm, though with an ear cocked in the direction of their children.

For the moment, tail still swaying back and forth, he looks to Noctis and gives him a head-nudge towards the bed. Without conscious realization, the human knowledge of using the bed to sleep has leeched in, and it takes little effort for him to leap up onto the huge bed (creaking slightly under his far greater weight) to lay out the length of it. The tip of his tail actually falls over the far edge with his back legs splayed to the side, leaving... most of half of the bed for Noctis to come up and lay beside him.