"I'm happy for you," Hati stated, uplifted by the pride and expectations in his friend's voice. He didn't know Terra ever wanted to be a mother - it didn't seem like this was planned, if she still had not told the father - but she adapted quickly, as she did with everything else life threw at her. Hati had a deep respect for his own mother, and he was sure these new sons would do their best to emulate any lessons Terra taught them. The Court would have some interesting times ahead of them, if they did follow in her footsteps.
"When you're feeling up to it, and they're ready, you should bring them to meet Mother... she, ah, she's not feeling well," he said simply, turning away as a pained look crept into his expression. Amaranth and Kable carried Ayita home yesterday, close to death. It would be a long recovery, but she had assured him she would be fine. "Someone attacked her," he finally elaborated, swallowing hard. They didn't know who or why, and it terrified him. He didn't want to scare Terra, though, not with her fierce instincts to protect her newborns. As long as she stayed inside the Court's borders, her family would be all right.
Since their conversation in the spring, Hati had scoured his family's library for information on his namesake. There still wasn't much, but he had at least uncovered a mention of the pantheon by lineage, in the dusty old encyclopedia with its hard-to-pronounce words. It seemed the wolves Sköll and Hati Hróðvitnisson had been sired by a giant wolf named Fenrisúlfr, who in turn had been sired by the ultimate trickster Loki Laufeyjarson. He had struggled to commit the foreign names to memory, but now his recollection had been stirred -- Terra's son was to be named Loki! It gave them a strange connection, born in the same pack and now carrying the same ancient namesakes. "They're good names... I know who Loki is," he stated proudly, ears perked forward with interest. "What story is Ananse from?"
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