She smiled reassuringly at the girl as she asked if they should do something, and commented on how much she sounded like she hurt. "Birthing hurts," she said. "Trust me." The birthing of her own pups had hurt quite a bit, and she was sure that giving birth to a horse was no less painful. To the question of whether they should do something, though, the female simply shook her head.
She watched as the horse went through convulsions - she was sure that it seemed horrible to the wolf girl, but she recalled it as normal. As the horse went through another convulsion, a small wet sack escaped from the horse's lower half - a foal. Although it should have stopped by now if this was her only one, it appeared that it wasn't - another was on the way, it seemed.
The girl cried as the horse made a pained sound - Skye attempted to put her hand on the girl's shoulder, trying to calm her. "It's alright - this is all normal." She put her other hand on the horse's neck, rubbing it, attempting to soothe her - it was true that this was normal and there was little they could do to ease the pain of birth, but she could at least give Grace and her owner a bit more reassurance.
"You can do it, Grace," she murmured reassuringly to the horse as she went through yet another convulsion. The horse went through a spasm and let out another pain-laced neigh, closing her eyes shut as she attempted to push out what was left inside her.
As she did, another wet sack began to slide out from the horse's bottom half. Grace made another noise before going through one last slight spasm, pushing out the foal for good. She then began to calm down, her breathing stabilizing and growing slower, before nudging her head to look to the foals she had birthed. In another minute, Skye thought, she would begin to clean the mess from her foals and help them feed for the first time.
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