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His praise for her offspring pleased the colliewoman, and warmed the pride for them within her. She would be as fastidious in motherhood as she was in her profession, and it calmed her to know that Vigilante approved of her brood. The ivory girl would surely grow quickly, and Alaine hoped to rid her of her clingy-ness and raise her to be a contributing member of her beloved pack. Perhaps this was why the woman had no mate - Her love was for her craft, and for the eclectic members of Cour des Miracles that she had made a home.
There would always be the loneliness on long dark nights, when shadows crept behind closed eyelids. With her children, she would ward them off, even in sleep. But deep within the woman was envious of those who had found romance - The King and his family were lucky indeed to know the happiness of their love. Her family would know much harder and colder truths, for the children from her womb were destined to be different. Little did the glowing mother know what twisted thoughts fate held for them; the daughter with a raptor's eyes, and the son with his mind trapped in his body.
She rose, somewhat stiffly. Thoughts of her bed in the old Hotel were welcome and wistful as the cool air nipped beneath her silky cream coat. "I should return now - There is so much to be done," The Apothecary looked fondly on the face of her ruler a moment, before casting emerald eyes so similar in hue to his own off in the wayward direction of the Chien Hotel. There were plenty of stocks that would need replenishing, plenty of brews to be made for those who were troubled by the season change with light illness.
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