Horizon Ridge Can't hide the truth

Ignoring my embarrassing/jump the gun boo boo, I've been meaning to jump into this for a while, but anyone else is still welcome! :D

They were all but certain that Thistle was pregnant, though Ragnar had called it before it had even been addressed at the meeting having known about her initial tryst with the Plateau male Crete - it was unfortunate that Ragnar remembered his name, probably because he distinctly remembered the jealousy he associated with the stranger when he heard Thistle speak of him as if he were the stars (or rather how she had spoken of him) or some sort of God that she revered, all the while remembering his own night with Thistle in the Allfather’s sacred grounds if only because there had been a part of Ragnar that was and remained still surprised that Thistle had accepted his advances instead of rejecting them. Unfortuantly for Thistle - for Ragnar was a light sleeper (and with good reason) her attempts at rousing from his side without awaking him had failed though he did not immediately let on that he had awoken. His eyes remained closed, his body in the position it had been in within his slumber though he listened for her departure from the den they now shared. It was big enough for them but he wondered if it would be appropriate for a birthing den, if it could house them and the little ones when they came. She and they would need their space.

Only after he had ascertained that she was far enough from the den, no longer able to hear her heavy and awkward footsteps upon the earth did Ragnar push himself to his paws, shrugging out of the mouth of the den, figuring he would play it like she hadn’t woken him. Knowing her it would probably upset her and that was silly. Apparently, he caught her making her way back to the den from the water her body looking different than it had. It was likely her sides had been rounding out before he just had not taken notice to the subtle changes in her body. Today, however, the Viking noticed it. “Do you feel them inside you now?” Ragnar asked his wife as he closed the distance towards her. “You are beginning to show.” In case she was not aware of the fact.