Moonspear And all I want is to find out what you're going through,

"so fast," she agreed, settling herself near to hydra with the air of a woman spreading her skirts upon the ground to kneel politely. she passed her warm jade gaze over the gangly pups, the feral light that clung to their tumbling ostrega limbs. she had no doubt that dirge and the blackbear would rear another litter in the year to come, and let out her breath.

"i am well. saddened a little, my mother's heart, that saviguk and sialuk do not need me as often these days." freed from the ulaq to run about moonspear, kukutux had no way to know each adventure that her son and daughter found for themselves. this caused her chest to ache, and she pushed it aside, brooding a moment. 

in the next she brightened, a coy smirk shimmering to life upon her mouth. "sometimes ... i wonder what it would like to be mother again."