Neela finally understood how people felt when they uttered the phrase "Today just can’t get any worse." Depressed, tired, covered in scents and smells that made her even worse but to tired and apathetic to clean herself up; Neela was in a fairly bad way at the moment and now because of Dalgina she felt even worse.
While the puppy didn’t mean badly she had made Neela's situation that day much worse. The almost painfully awkward and embarrassing conversation between the two hadn't done anything to improve Neela's mood, quite the opposite in-fact. The puppy had also drug up fears that Neela hadn’t even considered before.
Pregnant. The thought that her encounter, for that was all she could bring herself to call it, with Tony might have gotten her pregnant hadn’t occurred to Neela at all; her mind refusing to even consider the possibility until Dalgina had brought it up. Now that it had been planted into her head though, Neela couldn’t stop agonising over the possibility.
Neela had finally been driven out of the house by Grynn and had headed north, situating herself in a small clearing about a mile downriver from her pier. Skylar and Marahute had come with her, the large, dark coloured chick clinging to one shoulder and crooning comfortingly in Neela's ear while Marahute circled restlessly overhead, almost indistinguishable from Grynn if not for her smaller size. Grynn and Oonu were nowhere to be seen but from the calls she had heard echoing over the lands, Neela's brain had absently figured they had gone hunting.
Neela trailed her front paws in the river and gazed at her reflection in the running water, lost in her thoughts and oblivious to the gentle sounds of the two birds around her. There were many things on her mind at the moment, but most of them boiled down to one thing:
How could everything have gone so wrong in just one day?
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