Sleepy Fox Hollow Like a dream I can reach but not quite hold.

I lol awkwardly because it was my Alpha female character who made such a suggestion, derp.

She fumed quietly, yellow eyes staring ahead at the frozen snow and frosted rock that lay nestled on the cold earth beneath them. How odd it felt, to fear for the lives of babes not yet conceived at the jaws of another. When last Nyx had whelped, it had been her teeth responsible for such a massacre. It was a secret she would carry to her grave, one she was determined to keep from repeating but continued to fear all the same.

"I've never asked anything of you," she sighed, unsure if she could go forward with her new desire to reproduce following the suggestion of such risk, "yet I give and I give. I'd do anything for Diaspora. I will not beg this of you, Mahler." Nyx lifted her gaze to seek his dark features then, the ache of Takiyok's selfish claim over a wolf who was not her mate evident in the watery depths of her vivid eyes. "Nor will I insist that you choose, but Stigmata's failures are not your own. I hope you remember that."