Arrow Lake ❝—by my blood & bone.❞ (lbr.)

sorry for the wait, didn’t realize the post order ;a;
i’m fine with this being aur’s last post, unless you guys want another round??

Verx wouldn’t find her in picturesque poise of a new mother crooning over her children. No, her springy ribs quivered as she heaved to catch her breath; from the stutter and shock her body had gone through. Even reaching to kiss her children had proved exhausting. Her deliverers were there, poring over her and the little souls given life, and then they were gone, taking their murmurings with them.

In actuality, the midwives had taken the few strides away to greet the new father; but to the new mother, they felt a whole world away. He felt a whole world away — and as Mahler was the first to vacate, it took everything within Aure to reach for her frenzied beloved.

There’d been something about ”strong” and ”wife”, neither of which the silver had ever felt in her life at all; she felt so weak, so spent, and everything may’ve been vestiges of her fever. But she reached for Verx all the same, scarred snout wobbling in the heady air; inviting, needing, giving Olive a warble of admission to let her suitor pass. ”Dragă...” He needed to see the lives they’d made; who they’d brought into this world.