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delight's a private sort -- he's more than happy to keep queenie's pregnancy on the downlow. not that there's many left around to celebrate it, but he can't handle the prying eyes, the well-meaning congratulations and assumptions about him, his relationships, his role. 

the scope of his world has narrowed once again, it seems. but it's not mato and seabreeze, it's queenie and alarian -- sebastian's moved on by now, a final brush with the rochester line. delight's surprised to find he doesn't feel as deeply as he did about it before. alarian will be healed enough to go, soon -- to return to his pack. they need him. a little selfishly, the morwinyon doesn't want him to go. which, well. gives him an idea, actually.

when he finds queenie he greets her with a soft tail wag. he's still on eggshells around her, unsure how to, er, handle this development in their relationship. plus, like, hormones. intense. he wants to ask how she's holding up but hesitates, unsure if she'd like being coddled even in this state. maybe especially in this state. instead he says, "it's getting pretty quiet around here."