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"Drat," the Alpha murmured - it was the answer she had expected, but not the one she wanted to hear. A glimmer of gold joined her own pale reflection, sun and moon together. "Are you considering motherhood, Bazi?"

Bazi nodded, meeting Paarthurnax's smile with an expression that was neither enthusiastic nor fearful. It was her duty to bear children - at least now, as Alpha. As second in command, the thought had never crossed her mind. "Yes. Now that I'm the Alpha, it's my duty - and right. But how do you know when you're ready? I know women go into heat, but.. how do you know when that is happening?" Bazi's mother and sisters always absented themselves from the pack when the time came for what Shar-Kali referred to as 'a filthy natural necessity'.