07-31-2009, 05:30 PM
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The weather could be whatever you'd like--I didn't mention it in my post :o
The woman had come to the realization that it had to be true--she was pregnant. She didn't know what to make of this news, exactly or who she ought to tell. Ehno, probably...he'd be the first one that should know about it. She didn't want to tell Savina or Anu...or even see them at all if she didn't have to. She would have to be accepted by one of them at the border when she rejoined Crimson Dreams, of course, but she didn't have to tell either of them that she was expecting. She had made a mistake, but she still didn't believe that she should have been kicked out of the pack for it. Told to clean up or get out. She needed help, her family around to get her through all of it.
Somehow she had managed to do it herself. Naniko wanted to rejoin the pack so that she might be around her family, around her daughters...and so that these pups would be born in a stable environment. So they would be able to see their father. She didn't give two licks about what Savina and her ex-mate Anu did any more, as long as she could live there. She would say whatever they wanted her to say, give whatever apology they thought they needed. It wouldn't be genuine, but she would give it willingly. These pups were what mattered now.
The pale female had two blankets over her back, a third folded carefully atop the other two. She was stock-piling things to prepare for her return to the pack, to Ehno and Brooklyn and Mati. She would need these blankets later for sure. She'd gotten a wagon a few days earlier and would ask some of the creatures from the surrounding woods to help her pull her belongings back to her old packlands in a week or so. Naniko was heading toward the clothing shop that she lived in, the one that read "NANIKO" on the side of it in paint.
The woman had come to the realization that it had to be true--she was pregnant. She didn't know what to make of this news, exactly or who she ought to tell. Ehno, probably...he'd be the first one that should know about it. She didn't want to tell Savina or Anu...or even see them at all if she didn't have to. She would have to be accepted by one of them at the border when she rejoined Crimson Dreams, of course, but she didn't have to tell either of them that she was expecting. She had made a mistake, but she still didn't believe that she should have been kicked out of the pack for it. Told to clean up or get out. She needed help, her family around to get her through all of it.
Somehow she had managed to do it herself. Naniko wanted to rejoin the pack so that she might be around her family, around her daughters...and so that these pups would be born in a stable environment. So they would be able to see their father. She didn't give two licks about what Savina and her ex-mate Anu did any more, as long as she could live there. She would say whatever they wanted her to say, give whatever apology they thought they needed. It wouldn't be genuine, but she would give it willingly. These pups were what mattered now.
The pale female had two blankets over her back, a third folded carefully atop the other two. She was stock-piling things to prepare for her return to the pack, to Ehno and Brooklyn and Mati. She would need these blankets later for sure. She'd gotten a wagon a few days earlier and would ask some of the creatures from the surrounding woods to help her pull her belongings back to her old packlands in a week or so. Naniko was heading toward the clothing shop that she lived in, the one that read "NANIKO" on the side of it in paint.