Whitefish River I could really use a wish right now

50F°, currently it is clear and set at midnight, morning of May 25th. Located in Kaistleoki, center | ooc notes: puppies have been randomized, first born is the heir! Please let @Haruki and @Hotaru post first before anyone else joins! Sumi will come after Reiko's second post and will be tagged!

Cold. Alone. A deep darkness shrouded the Empress as she slumbered in the den she chose for the night to shelter from the weather, the old den she had picked out as her medicine hold and a garden just outside the mouth of the little cave that seemed to be blossoming once more even a year after Reiko had placed it, growing again with all the new herbs and flowers she had transplanted. Such a thing had brought her joy just moments ago, but forgotten as sleep quickly had clasped its cold hands around her as nightmares plagued the soon to be mother. Every familiar face turning their backs on her, loved ones all having enough of her stupid decisions no matter how much she thought of them while making those same decisions. All fading to nothing until —

!!!

Like lightning, a sudden painful spasm surges through her body, jolting the pale woman to awake in a violent and sudden jerking motion, even as the back of her head thuds against the wall of the den it made no difference as her lower back feels tight, almost crushing as it moves in waves closer toward her lower abdomen as it tightens and churns in an agonizing rippling effect. The sudden agony shocking her in its spontaneity. Curling backward initially and then inward toward her abdomen as the spasms shift. Only after a moment of silent cries did a sob finally burst through the silence of the night, one final rush of pain and - she manages to breathe once more, a sigh of relief as the throbbing aches momentarily subsided. 

Nature takes it course as she looks over to her rear, the usual pristine pellage stained red made it clear that she had been going through labour pains for a while through the nightmares, only to be awoken near the end of their birth. Gently bringing the first closer to her, she fears the worst at first. A still body, void of life and as limp as a carcass. Licking it clean and remembering her own mother instructing another woman in their pack that it encourages breathing, Reiko didn't stop until the little boy began breathing on his own, and she smiles as everything falls into place. Her heart exploding with joy knowing that now, right here, she had become a mother. Escorting the first prince to her midsection, a lesser wave announces the arrival of a second newborn, the pain not as intense as the first, Reiko managed to begin the same routine as before in cleaning and waiting until she too was safely breathing... a princess was born. Both of which were lights that flickered on in the recent darkness, and she would name as such... Haruki, and Hotaru.