Sun Mote Copse yellow ranger

perhaps another woman in eshamun's predicament would take offense, but the ekar-aji merely gave a smile at the kugarru warrioress who attended her. "i am big," she teased in her heavy accent, turning to present the silhouette of her belly to the shieldmaiden. "but soon i shall be small again." 

eshamun's smile faltered somewhat as she remembered that her time was nigh, and thus that of the babes, and her viridian eyes alighted thoughtfully upon ragna. surely the others had told her of the impending sacrifice, but a nagging suspicion that they had not did nip at her thoughts. "very soon."