Heron Lake Plateau onto every life a little rain must fall

He was too young for the "where do babies come from?" conversation, and Raven certainly didn't want to walk across that minefield with someone else's kid. So she did her best to simplify it down into terms he could understand without going into too much detail. She gingerly shifted into a slightly more comfortable position and explained, "It means I'm carrying babies in my belly. They're growing into puppies like you, and when they're big enough, they'll come out and you can play with them." Okay, that sounded...way weirder than it had in her head, but she hoped it would make some sort of sense in his young mind. "Your mom carried you in her belly like this too before you were born."