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Sorry this took so long to get up. x.x Can we backdate to Halloween?
Word Count: 383. Worth 2 points.
Hanna stormed into the Cour des Miracles territory. She was off to see the King, and damn the consequences. She had a legitimate reason to be there, anyway (or was it illegitimate?), a reason that now made her belly protrude further than it should be. The cause was not overeating, but rather by the liason that the pair had had just over a month before, the one night they had shared in Grandfather's Tears. Hanna was pregnant by the man, approximately a month along, and therefore halfway through the sixty-three day gestation, and while her belly did not stick out nearly so far as others she had seen, the slightly hardened bulge was certainly discernable.
The medic had elected to remain in her Optime form through her pregnancy as it was the one she used most, and her sable hands now smoothed over the place where the baby - or babies? - resided. Given her smaller belly size, Hanna kind of thought she might only be having one child, but she genuinely hoped she would be having more. It was not the fear of motherhood that was sending her tooth and claw after the father to be, but a dire fear of telling Dawali and the not knowing how she was going to participate in the pack as a single mother. She had not spoken to Tayui, yet, as she had barely admitted her pregnancy to herself, but Hanna made a mental note to do so soon. She would have to tell Dawali, anyway, she could not hide the fact much longer.
The woman stopped suddenly, looking around and realizing she had absolutely no clue where she was at. Cour des Miracles was larger and more complex than she had realized it was. She turned a full revolution, spotting as she did a tall building labelled 'Chien Hotel'. She continued along a few paces and then yelled out. "Jacquez!!" She decided that she would continue doing this every few minutes until the collie King showed his face. The woman struck an angry pose, arms crossed across her chest, one hip thrown out. She made sure he would likely know a loooooong way off what her attitude was.
And even though she was elated to be expecting, she would certainly not show him that.
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