Northstar Vale A new reason to smile.

It's okay. She reassured. I'm simply happy you returned safely. Because that was all that mattered. They all had lost so much and Reiko would have been devastated if, on top of everything else, Ibis had gone missing for good and needed a search party to go after her... Guardians forbid she would go unfound like so many others before her.

Fat? Offering a faux expression of "how dare you!" she twisted her head and then only after a while eased into a mocking grin, teasing her friend before correcting herself. Pregnant, yes. Not wanting to go into details of the whole ordeal, or of who the dads were of the puppies - she was still uncertain if she should tell the truth or go with that her now mate, was the father of them all. 

I should be due by the end of May or so. If she counted her days properly since the beginning of when the symptoms began.