Seaside Moors Cause back where I come from, man, we're laughing at you

in some part of her, erzulie knew. yet when raleska spoke, the she-wolf blinked. she had only prepared for the possibilities of her own children, and that of rosalyn. both were ageing, and she did not expect her second litter would be half so large as the last.
but now raleska stood holding too a brood, and erzulie thought of how precarious their position here was indeed. her eyes fell to the flanks of the shaken young woman, and she returned the embrace quietly. raleska could not be faulted for what had happened. it was the first time nature had echoed in her body.
"i do not know if anyt'ing can be done now, mon cherie," the woman admitted, for she was no midwife. "we will make it work. do you know de name of de fat'er?"