Sunbeam Lair It’s not so hard now, you’ve got it all

Time to be born! I've permission from Pija to PP Nekoda.
Welcome to the world, lil hatchlings~! Please let Ukko and the babies reply first.

All through the night she'd been restless, even with her mate being there beside her. Sleep had been achieved at last, and she'd hoped that, perhaps, that'd put an end to her unease. When she'd awoken that morning, however, she'd found it to have remained. It confirmed her suspicions, and she'd felt glad to have sent Nekoda away the morning prior to retrieve @Damien. No matter who the father might be, he was a friend of hers, and she'd wanted him there just in case the birth of her children might turn into her last moments of life. The worries she harboured had yet to be shared with anyone, having been kept to herself so that she might not cause a panic when it could very well be necessary. There was no way to tell the futures of the children within her womb, and so there existed no possible tests that might be done to determine if one was Draco's next vessel. All she could really do was hope, as well as cherish what time she had left, should it be brought to a sudden end.

The morning had slipped by and transition to noon, but there'd been no children to show for it. She'd paced around within her den, stopping occasionally to rest her legs, but always had she started back up again. When the first pang of pain had worked it's way through her system was when she'd finally laid herself down, getting as comfortable as she could as the process continued. There was a moment in which she'd considering sending @Ukko off to retrieve some herbs for her, but she'd ended up calling him nearer to her instead. If Draco decided that her time on earth was over, then she wanted to have him nearby when it happened. Asterr didn't want to die alone, nor did she want for her children to suffer the same fate. Thus, she'd mentally prepared herself for the pain to come, choosing it over the relief that could have been achieved with herbs.

A spasm in her abdomen seemed to get the ball rolling, and she'd held her breath as the following pain warned her of the to-be-firstborn's movement through her body. It'd been a relatively quick birth, the child having offered little resistance. The moment the body had slid out onto the floor, Asterr tore the sac away and went to cleaning, noticing almost immediately that it was a girl. A second passed, and she'd realized that her heart continued to beat. Despite having given birth to a female, it hadn't meant the end of her own life, towards which she felt an immense amount of relief. She looked the girl that would someday be known as @Airi over, examining her before having nudged her towards her stomach. Already she was a mother, but the rest of her children had yet to arrive; something she'd been made aware just as soon as the next jolt of pain shot through her midsection.

The next to arrive had come out just as easily as the first, and the dragoness tended to the child immediately. Another girl, to eventually be called @Kaori, had come into existence. Like her sister before her, she possessed a body of charred hues, lightened only by a few white hairs on her chest. How great the patch would come to grow, she knew not, but didn't mind either way. The girl was her daughter, and so she'd moved her right up to her sister's side, licking the both of them over their backs once or twice to assure them that she was still there. However, it wasn't long that they'd held her attention, for there came more pain, and a mass that was greater in size than the previous two. With her, the girl had struggled, but her body had won in the end and so onto the ground another pup had slid. It was @Shiori that had been born last, though she did not yet possess a name, her colouration being identical to that of her previous sister. The youngest's body was larger than the other twos', but all three appeared healthy. After a thorough cleaning, the final addition to their family had been brought up against her stomach. Minutes passed, but without any signal to more children arriving having been given. Realizing that she was done, Asterr had laid her head down against the ground, panting, but happy.

Sleep weighed heavily on her eyelids, but it'd been fought off for the time being. "Ukko..." she'd managed to say, her voice but a mumble. "Ukko, we all live." The children and herself, as well as him. The reason behind her words hadn't been clarified as she'd allowed for her eyes to close, resting them, but doing her best to remain conscious.