Stone Circle It's only half past the point of no return

Valette had been so exhausted that she couldn't stay awake anymore. Her breathing was shallow as she stayed unconscious for several hours. The warmth behind her made her feel a bit better. She slowly blinked her eyes open, every part of her body hurt. She still felt really tired but at least she was awake. The chocolate female slowly raised her head and looked tiredly at her newborns. However. Two of them weren't moving. Her eyes looked at the two in pain, her eyes tearing up a bit as she watched them.

Valette turned her head a bit more and licked over Greyback's cheek. She silently turned to look at the two deceased children. Her expression still pained. She never lost pups during birth before. She wondered what she could have done differently if she could even do things differently. The mother noticed the very small one as well. She had passed out while trying to revive it. The first thing she wanted to do was scold herself for passing out, but she realized that it was not an active choice.

They already seemed to stiffen and slowly she reached to grab them away from the newborns. She placed them between her front paws. She looked down at the two. Such difference, one larger than all of them and blue with suffocation and the other, so small and almost underdeveloped. Her ears followed back. Arlette had been sickly and small when born but she had thrived. She had failed with these two. "I'm sorry," she whispered. Valette looked extremely tired, her eyes laced with pain not really wanting to believe that two of her six children passed. She then hid her face in Greyback's thick mane. "I'msosorryGreyback," she sounded soft and muffled because of the fur.