Dragoncrest Cliffs & Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, (mtr.)

He listened carefully, nodding at intervals, eyes flickering to her belly. When she lay down and presented herself to him, Verx found his gut filled with a strange mixture of fear and arousal. Pushing it all down, he came closer, and closer still, and then gently placed a forepaw atop the swollen mound of flesh, just behind the ribs.

There! A flutter and a press against his pad, and his gaze, filled with awe, met hers. Goddamn, they are moving around in there, he chuckled, one corner of his mouth lifting in a nervous smile. He kept his paw there for a while, enjoying the feeling of their children so close to him.

You're right, that is surreal, Vercingetorix whispered. But then it's actually really real. So real that it hammered the truth home to him, in that instant. He was going to be a father. A father of children that he would actually know.