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She mocked me, Khoe scoffed, Not long before that, I'd told her about my first litter, and when I told her about this one — She looked away, suddenly realizing just how insignificant it might seem, She made it sound like I wasn't capable of raising them. She spoke down on me, like she could have done a better job at raising them than I -- than we could. Khoe loved her children more than she loved life itself, but sometimes she wondered if maybe Heartha had been right. Maybe she wasn't meant to be a mother, and maybe all she was capable of doing was hurting those she cared for most; she tried to push these thoughts from her mind, but pests had a way of finding their way back home.

If it had been anyone else; had it been Sunspot, or Katya, or even Dawn, gods forbid, I would have welcomed the idea. But Heartha insulted me and my family and she reached too low to ever climb herself back up.