Shadows of the Past

Malakai · 06-11-2012, 10:10 AM

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WC:: 551 - OOC Points - 10 + 5

One of the females Malakai had come to meet, Ayasha, had finally given birth to her pups. Ever since he had laid eyes on her swollen belly and seen the way her hand swept protectively over the curve of her pregnancy, Kai had become somewhat fascinated with the subject. With out a female could carry around living pups inside of them, able to feel them move, able to see them everyone in a while, too. He had been allowed up close to Ayasha while she was carrying her pups and had almost been given the chance to feel them within her but had been eventually chased off by her mate. Kai couldn't blame the male. If things had been the other way around, Malakai would have torn apart any other male to get so close.

It had got him thinking. It was something he would like to look further into yet it was the complete opposite of his other new-found obsession - torture. Through the common room and off to the right, Kai had found himself in the library. Reading was not something he pracised much but he carried the ability, for the most part, although some of the more medical terms he struggled with. This was also another situation in which his Optime form was required and therefore, he had felt the need to wear some sort of material. He couldn't very well roam around the common areas in his naked state and offend other pack members. And so, only a pair of cut off jeans adorned his body, enough to cover the parts of him he thought may offend.

A small pile of open books scattered the table he sat on - the more scientific issues, filled with pictures and anatomical diagrams, but the one he currently poured over had little to do with science or medicine or anatomy. Instead, it contained words about the soul, about life, about the cycle of life - individuals are created, they are born, they create life and they die and yet they live on through their offspring. Perhaps his two interests, pups and torture, weren't so seperate after all. Life and death, both part of the same cycle.

Pulling another book closer, he flicked a few pages further on, finding a section on the actual birth process. No graphic pictures in this book. It detailed the stages of it all, from the moment labour began, through until the pups were licked clean by their mother. It all sounded so clinical, but Kai knew that when it was actually happening, it wasn't a clinical process. It was an emotional one. He had heard Ayasha's whimpers and cries as she had given birth and had known that she was in a great deal of pain in bringing her pups into the world. Malakai flicked to another book that did have images, finding one of a pregnant female in her den not long after her own labour had started. He could see the pain in her eyes, practically feel her wincing, and as his focus turned to the swollen state of her belly in the picture, his finger traced over its curve as if trying to feel the pups inside of her. The birth itself was where his two interests meshed together, new life, and pain.

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