Bearclaw Valley sunshine, through the rain and snow

Laurel still didn't really want to talk about all of this. She didn't know Warbone and didn't like him already. Probably just another male whisking their mother off her feet and ditching her or whatever. And if he didn't, then he'd probably ditched some other girl in favour of her. It all came down to the same, in the end.

Of course Laurel wanted to leave, but she also knew that she couldn't in her current state. It frustrated her that Indra didn't see that, but she didn't lose whatever cool she had left after living in this place for a while. "Who?" she asked after Indra had finished, then realising that Phoenix was this kid of Saena and Warbone that was mentioned before. "Oh, him. What's he gonna do, then? Either way, I can't just leave now... The pups are almost going to be there and where are we gonna go? The risk is too big that the pups won't make it." She was afraid she would miscarry or worse, that they'd get into a pack that did not want the pups there; an Alpha that'd kill them. "We can't leave before they get here, In." She was resolute about this much; Laurel wanted to leave too, she really did, but when the pups were bigger...