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Moonsong
Word Count → 400+ :: Annnnd bringing up the rear thanks to Comic Con...
Zalen was gone and the Alphess did not like this at all. Was this what it was like for him when she had gone to visit the Court and Casa di Cavalieri? Probably not, she figured, nothing could shake the Alpha's bones, and it bothered her that this could shake her own. She wanted to go with them but one of them needed to remain in New Dawn to lead the pack. Still, her agitation had been palpable while he was gone. At least he went with a wolf she respected. Not only was it bothersome that this business about the fiend had taken Zalen away from the pack lands, but it had interrupted yet another love marathon between the two, leaving her with an empty, cold dais to sleep on while he was gone.
Yet at least there was one thing there to lift the girl's spirits... there were signs that she was pregnant, and this time it was less likely to be a false pregnancy like the one before. It had wounded the Alphess's pride to have to tell her love and her pack what she had learned when she saw the midwife in Cour des Miracles, but now it seemed she had another chance...
A howl made her head jerk off of her paws. She had been dozing in the woods when she heard the call, and in to time at all she heard footsteps gallop past her. Her people were coming from all corners of the land to meet their leader and hear the result of his visit to Anathema. Jumping to her paws, Titania took off after them. Here and there she could see a tail or a rump moving through the forest, and just a few steps after her people she broke from the trees to see Zalen on the mound.
“My love,” she said, but instead of calling out the words were low, spoken to herself. She moved through the pack as she ran up to Zalen, her tail wagging as she licked his muzzle. Then her tail grew still as her mien became more somber, and she looked into his eyes. Her ears flicked, and she walked a half circle around him to take her place at his side, her shoulder butting up against him, so happy to have him back. She looked out to her people, so many eyes awaiting his words, and then turned her attention to the Alpha. “What news have you brought us, my star-runner?”
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