Northstar Vale Brick and mortar as thick as scripture

The pregnant Duchess was at it again, her constant worries and anxiety were making her sense of self all out of wack, she just had to check around again, patrol again, just something to keep her mind off of what was going on inside of her. The dark woman felt like she was on constant adrenaline that was preventing her from resting, even though that was what she should have been doing. However, her patrols were always accompanied by the samurai @Yuudai, she had found herself a little at ease with him around since he was basically her conscious in case she did something stupid. The two had become acquainted with each other, but not to the point of any romance since she just saw him as a useful ally.

But this patrol, in particular, would have made the woman's stomach turn in a different matter.

The cloaked woman was traveling with the white warrior when she had almost tripped over herself while climbing over a rock and immediately started clawing and chewing at the rock with erratic force until Yuudai had to pull her off. She wasn't herself, in fact, she was losing herself, and it was only getting worse as the pregnancy went on for every little thing set her off and Yuudai came to her rescue to reel her back into reality.

Things would take a quick turn as the two continued their patrol with Vespera shoving her nose into the dirt to see if the worms would spring up and attack her, but once again, Yuudai had to come and tell her that the worms in the dirt wouldn't do such a thing. At this point he was probably getting tired of her shenanigans. 

But Vespera perked her head and ears with her nose twitching fiercely, her violet orbs widened at the sudden scent that hit her nose. Her instincts were all over the place and she didn't know what to think but she knew that someone was there this time. With her face looking like she snorted a line, she bolted off towards the scent with Yuudai quickly at her heels. The Duchess really had no idea what to do once she saw the stranger, but her mind was screaming to kill at first sight so that's what she was going to do.

With her paws thundering through the valley, the scent got stronger, it was like a bad odor. But the world felt like it slowed as she turned the corner and a glimpse of a wolf came into her view, but it wasn't just any wolf.

No way...

The woman skidded to a stop before she would come into view and heaved her chest, did she see a ghost or something? She was sure Yuudai had loads of questions but she couldn't answer them at the moment, she was just too amped up to think clearly. The dark woman put her ears slightly back with a curious but confused look on her face, she crept up to the corner to peek her head out. "Clay? Is... Is that you?" She said breathlessly as those words came out of her mind without any thought, it just came to her. The scared woman blinked in disbelief as she stared at the young boy and could only sense a broken man, it was obvious in the scars that he bore, what happened? Vespera revealed her pregnant self, unafraid of the male that was at the Empire's borders.