Horizon Ridge Can't hide the truth

As it stood, Horizon Ridge had no Caretaker, no Midwife, nothing and no one to assist Thistle with the preperations of the birthing of their children - unless there was something one of their pack mates had not been telling them - and because Thistle was young - having likely just reached her sexual maturity sometime before Crete and her copulated - it made Ragnar nervous. Instincts were all well and good, and would without a doubt in his mind kick in for her when the time came but it would be her first time and what if something went wrong? It was a morbid thought that whispered like a devil in the back of his mind but it had and did happen. It had happened to Dagmar. His ex-wife’s (one of them anyway) pregnancy was not something he would have considered useful to use in this situation, for the babes had came rushing out of her in a pool of blood, each and every one of them still and lifeless. There had been no joy only pain (for Dagmar both physical and otherwise).

Ragnar did not count that as a real birthing because they had been aborted by Dagmar’s body.

The nerves within the scars upon the left side of his face perceived most touch as pleasure that was felt there in a sickeningly sweet feeling and it was that feeling that rushed through the side of his face when she nuzzled him there. Ragnar watched her sit down, assuming that she needed a rest from the short walk, enjoying the sound of her chuckle. “Do you think they recognize voices yet?” On a spontaneous urge, something he had never felt the need to do when Dagmar had been carrying, he moved to her side and bowed his head so his forehead was lightly touching one of her rounded and slightly extended sides. “Odinn tells me you are all healthy and strong in there,” He nearly cooed to her womb, wondering what kind of specticle he - the fierce Viking made cooing to his and Thistle’s unborn children. “It is fine,” He spoke to Thistle now. “I sleep lightly.” Vigilance even in his slumber was important for the protection of his family, anyway.