Sun Mote Copse words of wisdom

Eljay blinked when Towhee asked how she should prepare for having kids again next year. Honestly, Eljay was rather surprised; she hadn't had a mate this year and he thought that maybe that was just, well, a mistake. Meerkat was a happy mistake, of course, but still... To hear Towhee say, without a mate, that she was looking to have more children was a big surprise. He gently asked, So is there ah... Is there a man in the picture? He carefully decided not to ask her if she had a mate, because it was obvious that she didn't, but instead keep it more open-ended and mention 'man' in any form.

As for what he was teaching Fennec: We haven't spoken about midwife things yet. I'll ask her if she's interested in it. He hadn't given it much thought, since Fennec hadn't listed pups in the list of things she was interested in learning. She seemed more interested in learning about plants and how to fix up wounds. However, it was worth a shot. He hadn't even really considered yet that it might be important to have someone who was a good midwife present. After all, before he'd taken it up there had not really been one and he had always felt that his job was very.. extra in a lot of ways. Niamh'd done fine without him this year, and that was just a testament. It was only necessary if something went wrong, or for extra comfort, and even when something did go wrong with his mother, Eljay vividly remembered he had been completely unable to do anything to fix it. He'd been much younger and inexperienced at the time, but still... He wouldn't really know what he'd do if he encountered such trouble again and he dreaded the day.