Bearclaw Valley tetelestai | (it is finished)

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a cheerless dusk shrouded the sky and a thick, foreboding fog gripped the teekons.  bearclaw valley was cast in a coat of white from the dusting of snow they had received yesterday and decorated in dismal shades of gray.  the air was heavy with moisture, and the girl with no name crept through the valley with silent and purposeful stride.  

her mood paired well with the weather — the cramping from her pregnancy had been exceptionally intense today and her last interaction with the subject of her ire had increased reigi's irritability.

she needed her husband. 

the raven did not understand how everything had gone so wrong.  she had brought the girls food and swiftly turned around and left, but indra would not have it.  it seemed as if she simply wouldn't be appeased until reigi was gone — no matter the circumstances of her departure.

reigi had been obeying alexander's command to be kind; she had avoided the girls until their latest interaction.  she thought, perhaps, laurel was ready to put it behind them by her lack of response... but her quarrelsome and ill-mannered sister took it in her own paws to stir the metaphorical pot.

and honestly, it had gone past the point of tiring.  the behaviours indra were expressing were ones reigi simply could not understand; it wasn't from refusal or insubordination.  grappling for rank was, simply, not how primitive wolves went about their business.  it did not come naturally, it was not instilled into her like it was the redleaf girl.

but defending herself was.  and soon, that is what it would come to.  she was terrified that the redleaf girl was going to provoke her too hard one day, and she'd be forced to take the girl's life between her jaws and reigi would be blamed.

none of it was anything she wanted to think about right now.  she just wanted to spend the evening with her boy.  another intense, crippling cramp racked her body and she grit her teeth in frustration, pausing in her search for @Xan and taking the time to breathe.