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Nice! *thumbs up*

Elwood nodded. He had suspected that she wasn't actually pregnant; there would have been much more commotion had that been the case. And he had to agree with her logic -- bringing a new litter into the world in the middle of winter posed its own set of risks, and he knew that the Alpha pair would want to ensure that the next generation had the best chance of survival.

Fox mentioned spring, but it was her next comment that surprised Elwood into silence. "I'm assuming you and Finley will be having another round?" she asked, and he blinked. It obviously wasn't something they had discussed recently, after Finley's disappearance and subsequent injury, and he found that when he was presented with the topic he wasn't sure what he wanted.

"You know...we haven't talked about it," he replied evasively, turning his gaze out over the landscape below. "But I'm sure we'll do a better job planning this time," he quipped, attempting to gloss over the subject with a joke -- though there was truth to his words. There certainly would not be another accidental pregnancy in the Blackthorns' future.