Swiftcurrent Creek But the light faded out like flames always do {birth thread}

blah! I didn’t want this to take so long!!!! Sorry! Life is super busy atm

Offering her son a small smile, his voice gaining strength with every second, and growing increasingly frustrated at the failure to find food. Lie gently nosed him closer to her teat. “Come now little one. You can do it.” Steadying him as he wavered and hoped he would find his mark.

She had a long break, such that Lie thought she was graced with only one child. She called out to Kavik, relief filling her voice before another contraction hit her. This one less painful than the last, but still enough to take her breath away. The small woman, labored, grunting and squirming, hoping this one would be easier than the last. Ignoring the fact that she had just called for the father of her children.

To her relief her daughter greeted the world much more easily. And Lie cleaned the girl just as vigorously as her brother, although more confident than before. She had brought one life into the world, surely his siblings too would follow. Yet her motherly affection went unnoticed by the young girl. She gave no sound and held no movement. Lie in a panic tried harder, stroking the babe. Giving a whine she nudged with her nose. Until finally, she stopped and stared at the girl who looked very much like herself as a pup.

She couldn’t believe it. Her daughter was gone. Before she had even had a chance. Before she had opened her eyes, or said her first words, or taken her first steps. Her daughter was dead. Lie simply couldn’t believe it.

As if the universe took pity on her, Lie didn’t have time for the grief to register, as yet another agonizing contraction made itself known. And the need to push distracted her from the lifeless form. More blood seeped with every push. But she kept going, knowing she couldn’t fail another of her children.

Yet another babe, came forth, another girl. Born only a few minutes after her sister. Before her cleaning was even complete, @Morena let out a whine, obviously the strongest out of the three to have been born.

Trying to ignore the ghastly sight of her eldest daughter, Lie protectively pulled her two surviving children closer to her. Trying to protect them from the world.