Moonspear our love belongs to the earth, our hearts to the stars

beebs!!!!! i might edit this post a bit later and fluff it up some but i did not want to make you guys wait anymore! @Arcturus @Yama @Yami @Revui ♥ ♥ ♥

No stranger to what nature would dictate of her here, the gravid alpha had receded away to her own secrecy when restlessness drove her madly to it. A scarce few family could chance her company when she was feeling vaguely up to it earlier on, then eventually this waned away until she was happier seeing no one beyond her other half that rest with @Charon. Even him, after a point, she preferred out on guard anyway. Knowing what she did about the proceedings, having been through it before, she knew how she wanted it to be.. and if she could not demand the weather to cooperate with her whims and stop snowing before the moon went full and her time to whelp came, then this would just have to do. Thankfully no one argued with her on this, and largely let her be to do what needed done in the final days that ticked down to mere hours.

She didn't particularly want to, feeling tired and annoyed already, but her speckled mate was no longer welcome tonight and she warned him away again to go back to watch or out of her sight. It just seemed soon to her, a fact she chose to deflect to the nature of the season itself, but she'd see to the motions all the same—without a choice as her body tensed, desperate to prepare for what was to come. Her litters never came this early and winter was taking its time on the way out, a fact she would rather see change; yet there was no time left to wait, nor reason. The curious beast in her was certainly keen enough to see them by now, and knew their family waited anxiously for their arrival as well. She paced away the eve, resting periodically, until well later.. and maybe a little while after, she finally quieted down in earnest and saw this go forward.

Amekaze settled in first over a brand new black blot of a son, and a matching duo of girls—dark browns for now, but perhaps not as dark as him. Here in the depths of the den, only beneath the subtlest hints of moonlight, it was not easy to tell. No matter, tucking them all against her belly to nurse, she was just happy to see them thrive. Alongside this lull, she enjoyed the relative peace within herself.. until it was no more, and she was drove up and to her feet to pace it off more. This, with a little work, heralded two tiny pale ones—a male and female apiece. Instantly, she was wary of them.. and although nothing was obviously misplaced on either of them, they were small.. especially compared to the others, practically two halves to one whole between them. She situated them at her side still, as away from the other trio as she could, and tried to relax while they wiggled about their earliest moments.

This would suit her as everything she needed to do, honestly, but the night was not yet through and the picture of her fatigue became a little clearer. Tiredly, she mustered her strength and welcomed another son.. one more like the others in size and bearing, so as soon as he made it clear he was surviving, she nudged the newest boy next to the paired sisters and cleaned him there. Now, this, had to be where she would have this end. She could imagine no more, and heaved a mighty, exhausted sigh, and groomed the newest brood of Ostregas as attentively as the fatigue of a long eve would have out of her.