When she couldn't move anymore, she knew her babies wanted to come out any day now. She was glad @Eilonwy had come to meet her before her siblings were born, almost as if they had planned this all along. Truth of the matter was that Eilonwy had no idea Chusi had been pregnant while she was away. @Kavik had been so kind as to grant her her wish, and yet had demoted her in the process. Yes, she was still bitter about it, but there were more important matters right now - like the gnawing pain at her insides.

The sun had only just gotten up when Chusi lay panting in her whelping den, desperate to get her children out. She had already picked out names for them and everything was way less scary than last year. In a jiffy two little, wrinkly bodies were suckling at her teats. She cleaned and caressed them, noticing they looked a lot like each other. The only way she could tell them apart was that the bigger girl had some white hairs in her neck. That one was going to be Dakota. The smaller girl would then be Dorea.

She turned towards the entrance when she heard the thump of a meal hitting the ground. Having been through this before and trusting every wolf near her, she didn't react negatively to another presence. She stuck her head out to see who it was, almost expecting to see Rosalie, the girl who had offered to aid her in her pregnancy though also the one to steal her rank, but she didn't mind who was actually at their doorstep. Kavik? She half questioned half stated.

We're all fine 'ere. Two lil' girls. She smiled. 'You seen Eilonwy? I want her to see her new sisters too. Was she asking because she was genuinely waiting for her eldest daughter to come or because she wanted to move the conversation onto what was really on her mind? Her demotion, her wanderlust, her feeling insignificant to the pack?

He really wasn't a bad guy, but that wasn't what ticked Chusi off so much. She hardly believed she could feel so bitter about something so minor, but she did. All this bottling up of her feelings wasn't doing her well either and she was at the verge of collapse. Either she had to get her shit together and tell him outright that she wasn't happy with her place, or break all her morals and move somewhere else whenever her babes were old enough.

Kavik? She started, but the words got stuck in her throat.

She took a deep breath. I'm sick of bein' a Delta. She responded. She wasn't sure where she had gotten the courage from, maybe hormones, but at least she was being honest now. She knew she was asking for a lot, but she wouldn't get anywhere with just accepting things as what they were. She was sick of being at the Creek as a whole, mostly because she missed all her old friends, but she was bound here now. And if Eilonwy decided to wander again, they'll never be able to find each other again.