Rising Sun Valley the power of voodoo (discovery)

As she was wont to do regarding Jinx, Pied launched into something resembling a lecture. The Kesuk was bored with these lectures, and thought they happened much too often. Pretty much every time the dappled wolf found her, there was some lecture involved with it. More oft than not, it was Jinx who continued them with ceaseless defensiveness. In this case, however, she remained strangely silent, at least until Pied shook her head and muttered something about respecting her. Hah, thought the black-toed woman, like that'd ever happen.

But she didn't speak out in cutting self defense, at least not this time. Instead, her only response was a pointed, "I didn't," whose ambiguity was almost certain to be more frustrating than her situation itself. Didn't what? Whatever specific part of Pied's chiding Jinx referred to, she didn't explain further. The simple truth was that she hadn't known it would result in pregnancy at all. Naivety ruled parts of her life that should have been supplied by her parents. Jinx had been still rather young when she left the Bay, too young to ever have to worry about pregnancy, and so she hadn't been taught its ins and outs.

"You may take them," she offered, "if you want Fox to hunt you down, kill them, and then kill yours too. Seems a high price to pay for an enemy's whelps." She rolled her shoulders, not quite understanding why Pied even cared. If Jinx had an ounce of mothering instinct in her, she had yet to find it. It was weird, then, for another she-wolf to care more than herself about her children. It was well beyond the selfish Kesuk's comprehension. "Besides, if Fox doesn't find them, Sos will. They are not meant to live, Pied. One way or another, that's just how it is."