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Only seven days old and the child already seemed to have doubled in size. Nayru did not know really how puppies grew or developed but simply continued to care for the blind and deaf ball of fur. The girl crawled about on the floor from time to time, getting nowhere fast, but mostly nursed and slept, which gave Nayru ample time to rest herself. The birth had been tiring and hardly had she left the den. There was little need to, X'yrin and Saluce both provided food and water and whatever else Nayru's childlike heart could possibly desire. The ache hadn't really left her body, and when she did emerge from the underground den it was with slow, pained movements.
Once outside the den there was little to do but defecate, breath in some fresh air, and then return to Kahlo. It was on one such break that the call reached her. Tilting her head she caught the long song as it carried on the winds and she wondered if Saluce or Razekiel would go to him. Saul. He had come home? A fearful flutter grew in her chest, was Gideon with him? Shiloh? Any of them? Yet surely if any of the other Stormbringer clan had come they would have called out too. Nayru left the brief jolt of uncertainty flee from her as she threw back her own head and answered the call.
That her brother-in-law of sorts should come back was not surprising, Nayru knew where the man's loyalties lay, but that it was so soon seemed strange. After Samhain was when the man had disappeared and Nayru realized it was exactly enough time to have missed her whole pregnancy and birth. Yet she could not go to him, and so her own call was one of summoning. The green eyed man did not need to stand at the borders, he was an Ichikan, and Nayru slipped back into the den, gathering up Kahlo to await the arrival of their brother.
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