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For all of it's traditionalist attitude, the Monti Sabini pack hadn't limited breeding strictly to the alpha pair. If Savina had known that was what it was like in most regular wolf packs it would have surprised her, but she only knew what she grew up with. Technically anyone had been allowed to have a litter back in the pack of her birth, but it was when the couple weren't a mated pair that things became dicey. That was what had happened to her mother, and while they had allowed her to stay within the pack, she had been marked as an outsider and the three Marino children as well. The Italian fey was so glad to be rid of all the judgment and hypocrisy of her old home. The only thing that had ever made that place feel like home was having her family around her. Once that was gone, there had been nothing for her there. Her thoughts were diverted back to talk of Mati and Artemis though and she couldn't help the amused smile on her face. "Yes, let's. Though thankfully she won't be on her own." It wasn't that she didn't think the Church girl was up to the task, she just knew that it would take the whole pack to keep her daughter in line and out of trouble.
She couldn't understand what could have happened to make Colibri withdraw from Anu as she clearly had. She didn't have to ask her friend if it made any sense to her, Savina could easily see that it didn't. True, when she had spoken with her the girl had seemed timid and shy, but if anyone could bring someone out of their shell it was the wolfess beside her. The woman had seen it herself with the way that Anu could talk to her own shy daughter, Cambria. Anu was kind and patient and always understanding. There was no question in her mind as to whose problem it was that had driven them apart. It was true that she could be somewhat blindly loyal to her friends, but she knew that Anu wouldn't have done a thing to push Colibri away from her. Whatever it was, it was with the younger female that the issue lay. It was really too bad, but Anu deserved someone who wouldn't run and hide at the first hurdle to jump.
The pronouncement left her friend just as shocked as she had been when she had come to the conclusion. Savina could almost see all the various emotions and thoughts whirling behind those sky blue eyes. Not for one moment did she break gaze with her friend, knowing that Anu needed her now and needed to know and understand the condition she had unexpectedly found herself in. She remembered well the first time she had discovered she was pregnant. It hadn't been so much a shock, for she and Kansas had been trying for it, but it was obvious that this was not anything Anu had strove for consciously. Time seemed to pass so slowly between the two females, and then large tears rolled down her friends face. As Anu asked her one word question, Savina nodded her head. "Really. All the signs are there. Your scent says it, your fatigue, your nausea, the swell and change of your emotions, your stomach. Everything's there." The Commander wanted to ask who and when, but she held her tongue, knowing now was no time for those questions.
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