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Palaydrian continued chuckling and listened carefully to Shadow’s words. An immense weight from her chest began to lift as his words poured into her ears. Hearing another pack mate speak about what had happened or at least convey that they understood, seemed to take some of the burden off of the young mother. Her laughing stopped, but her eyes stayed cheerful as she nodded in response. Shadow was right. She needed to let go of the past and simply hold onto the memory of the three unnamed growing in her belly and the happiness they had brought to her and Jiva before they were even born. And now, she had a tawny heartbreaker to love and care for, but those three would always be her children no matter what. A knowing smile found her dark lips as she watched her brother initiate play with her child.
She lay down in the grass and kept an amused gaze on her son. Leaf had now managed to scramble back to his four legs and was bravely toddling towards the apparently sleeping Shadow. The kit kept glancing back at his mother and marking odd chirping sounds, something Drin was growing used to, but still odd all the same. Jiva had warned her of this, but she found Leaf’s little quirks to be endearing. Go on, she urged him with a breathy laugh through her snout. Much like a cat, Leaf immediately honed in on the one moving object, Shadow’s ear. Drin’s grin only widened as the kit began to wiggle his bum before he made a clumsy bound forward. He stopped short of touching the “sleeping” wolf and began to bounce about like a mexican jumping bean. Giggles poured forth from the woman as Leaf filled the air with squeaky chatter. His hunting tactics obviously need work, but he had the right idea.
If only I could trust everyone to be as accepting as you, she sighed, not wanting to spoil Leaf and Shadow’s fun, but the words had just slipped out. For now she’d be content hiding her happiness away, but New Dawn was full of hunters and someone else was bound to find out her and Jiva’s secret sometime soon.
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