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Skye shrugged. It didn't seem like J'adore had raped Valinta or anything - it was clearly consensual. And that made Skye feel like it wasn't his fault at all, and he didn't take her freedom away - if Valinta hadn't wanted to do it, or foresaw the difficulties that were lying ahead now, she wouldn't or shouldn't have consented to that. Skye didn't really feel pity for the man, the same way she didn't feel pity for Shawchert - it had been their choice. They'd done it. Wallowing in misery and whining like a puppy wasn't going to solve anything, nor was it going to let them go back in time and take away what they'd done. They'd done it - maybe they should have, maybe they shouldn't have, but the fact was that what was done was done.
Skye listened to J'adore's next words - he may move, or she might. She was saddened by the thought that the dancer, Valinta, may move to AniWaya and never return except for visits, but she supposed that it was better than if they stayed where they were and didn't go anywhere at all. That'd leave the pups fatherless - and there was always the possibility of J'adore moving to Cercatori d'Arte as well. Skye nodded as he said that Valinta was confused - she could imagine that. She remembered how much of a mess Orin was in when she realized that she may be pregnant...and understood.
Skye pinned her ears back and narrowed her eyes at the last point J'adore made - get rid of it? How on earth was that even possible? There were two ways to get rid of a puppy - to kill it while it was inside you, which was extremely risky, considering the dead body would be inside you for a long time and it may kill you, and to wait until it was born and then get rid of it. What monster, what absolute monster, would try the second option? Or even the first? Get rid of it...Skye couldn't even believe he had brought that subject up.
She shrugged when he suggested somewhere warmer, and moved to a spot where the sun filtered through the trees. "There aren't a lot of warm places when it's the middle of winter," she pointed out, looking up at the cloudy sky. The sun filtering through the trees was a bit warm, but the sun was covered by the clouds and didn't give off as much heat as it would have. She looked back down to J'adore, deciding to voice her opinions on all the things he had told her - she wondered vaguely why he did. Perhaps he needed someone to talk to, that was all - everyone needed some of that.
"Sounds like you need to talk it out with Valinta - you made the decision, and you're stuck with it now. She's pregnant, and that can be hard on a woman." Skye remembered she read about pregnancy - they could even get postpartum depression, which wrecked them out of their minds and made them depressed even if the happiest things were happening to them. It was a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it made them sad for no reason - it was like a sickness or a disease. Skye didn't want Valinta to become depressed, but sometimes that happened when you had pups. You could also get mood swings and other horrible things from being pregnant, but she was confident that the healthy dancer wouldn't have too much trouble.
She looked at the golden man and sighed - she couldn't cast him out of the packlands, not now that she knew the full story. She would have to speak with Shawchert about it, but it seemed to her that she really had no choice but to let him visit Valinta for a few days - at least to decide what they were going to do in the meantime, and what they were going to do with the puppy once it was born. "You can visit Valinta, but don't linger for too long at a time - Shawchert may not like that. And for goodness sake, don't cause trouble - if you do, not only will Shawchert be angry, but so will the rest of the pack." Skye let that sink in for a moment - it was the hint that if J'adore was to cause any trouble or be the causer of some sort of drama, the entire pack would chase him out. She loved Valinta, but the pack came first, and she had the entire pack behind her, besides.
She wondered for a few moments if Valinta was going to go to his pack after she gave birth, or if he was going to go into theirs. If he caused trouble - she didn't think he would, but if he did - him joining their pack would become something of a problem. She hoped, for his sake and Valinta's, he would keep things quiet and only come visit for one or two days at a time, tops.