Nova Peak may i?

It was becoming difficult to walk. Bazi was still a month away from giving birth, but could not imagine growing any larger. The weight of the pups pulled on her spine and hips, and she walked like a cowboy with a bad case of crotch rot - legs splayed, steps short.

But that didn't stop her from attending to her perceived responsibility to guard the borders just as closely as Scimitar and Kaskara did. The grotesquely round Alpha female waddled straight up to stranger at the edge of the woods, head held high and proud above her deformed body. "Seeking asylum?" she asked, squinting her shrewd blue eyes.