Under the covers

There was always a way out - the true question was, whether you were ready to take it and sacrifice a lot in the process? Osprey didn't think about the children she carried as little wolves yet. The concept of them was very obscure, therefore she thought about her unwanted pregnancy as just an inconvenience. A sickness that you could get rid off with the right drugs. And there were and had she been a more selfish and daring person she would have jumped at the opportunity the moment Blue willow offered it.

But she did not. There was a long moment of silence during which Osprey could only think about two things - the fact that she would not be okay in the end and that she would break her friends heart by asking her to give the herbs. It was then that she knew - that she didn't want to die (if that was the possibility) and that her mistake was not worth her friends suffering. It would not be right to make the healer somehow responsible for the death of the "accidental children". Especially, since she was a mother herself.

As tempting as this quick-fix seemed, Osprey decided against it. She looked at her friend, feeling sorry for requesting such a thing: "Blue, I won't do that to you... I just... this can't happen... there is no life for them here..." It was now a thought further. A little glimpse in the future that her children could/would have, if they were born here and now. The image was not pretty or happy. They woud be deemed as bastards, who had no rights, whom all could bully an look down to. And what would happen to her? Would she want to have her life as a constant fight to protect the ones that were her kin? Would she want to go that far as to beg for mercy?