Ouroboros Spine opportunity is punishable by death

Tonravik rest half-in, half-out of the shade. The sun had shifted as it would throughout the day, and her shadowy haven fell subject to the light. But she slept, and the warmth on her thickly-furred belly was not so uncomfortable now. And she dreamed of a colder place, where the chill was so cold it reached her in this land. But she slept lightly, and the howl for her caused her to lurch upward. A painful sensation coursed through the whole of her abdomen, and the woman thought to howl to him to come meet her so she could lay a little while longer. The pains coming to her were strange and relatively new, coming in waves. Nearing five weeks, they grew stronger.

Hoisting herself up, the leader then shared a series of howls with her mate to find his precise location before coming before him. He was soaked, but she did not keep a distance from her partner, who she moved beside and moved to nip roughly, an express sign of her affection toward him. The alpha did not move out of reach, receptive to retaliation.