Bearclaw Valley oh captain, who is your captain?

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indra found herself passing the only entrance of the valley with a hare's limp form in tow; most of its soft fur and flesh had been eaten, but there was enough meat that clung to its thin ribcage that it would proffer some sort of sustenance for @Laurel. she intended to bring it to her sister, or to cache it if laurel was not hungry.

laurel's condition grew more evident by the day, as such, indra's anxiety grew with it -- until it wrapped around her like a dark and malignant tumor. she worried for their future in bearclaw, for laurel's health. she worried after the unborn lives that they would mete upon the coldly turning earth, of the things they would witness; and what should befall them, if laurel or she grew sick? or hurt?

and if they knew the story of their lives, would they be better off never being born at all?