Stavanger Bay ex's & oh's

The woman came forward. Once, Doe might've admired the fierceness of her stance, but today she was too drained to notice. The question didn't help, either. Her attention was turned inward as she struggled to find the answer. Sandpiper was parentless if she did not belong to Doe - and the girl nursed from her teats, was cleaned by her tongue. She should agree, but she couldn't.

"No," she said decisively. "She belonged to the alpha - but I am the alpha, now," Doe shared, eyes tracking the movements of the speckled girl as the eyes of a hunter tracked its prey. Often, the Akhlut struggled with an unwelcome urge to eat these children. They were not hers, and that made them intruders - pretenders to her own children's thrones. If she had not loved Skellige, they would already be dead.