[/html]Trent was surprised as Terra seemed to light-heartedly tell him about her pregnancy. As if it was just an oopsie, something that she'd done wrong, like stealing food from the caches (oh, wait, they'd actually done that), or getting hurt from tripping (oh, she'd done that too, except not so much tripping as getting a leg gnawed off by someone or something, or he imagined, for tripping didn't generally make you that beat up). She was going to bring life into the world, with all the dangers that accompanied that, and Trent couldn't help but frown at her complete lack of responsibility in the matter. And he was pretty sure that she was still somewhere up in the higher bits of the ranks, like Alder, too, despite getting pregnant at the end of summer and giving the pack more hazzard. Apparently, survival wasn't very high on the to-do list of the pack, or perhaps they'd just gotten lazy from having surprisingly much food just laying around.
Well, whatever the case was, Trent was certainly disappointed in her. He thought back to the first time they'd met, and wondered what their lives would've been like if he'd actually decided to pull through with trying to court her, officially, like he'd intended. Well, at least hers would've been a whole lot less messed up right now, then. They'd probably have kids, too (the thought made him shudder a bit inwardly), and be able to offer those kids good lives.
Lost in these thoughts, he thoughtlessly countered with another joke, almost mimicking the light-hearted stance on the situation that he so disapproved of, "Ah, if only you'd chosen a more reliable and suitable mate some months ago, huh?" He wasn't even sure if she'd catch the hidden meaning, since she couldn't look into his thoughts and maybe had forgotten altogether about their little almost-adventure when she'd first come into the pack, and was glad for it right after he'd said it, kinda hoping that she'd catch it as a general comment rather than the self-revolving joke that he'd thought of it as.
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