Broken Antler Fen roseblack

Luckily Teya took it in the way it was meant, not as a push towards it but as an offer.  One that Bridget didn't make lightly, yet always was sure to make known to the women in packs where she worked.  Sometimes men were too forward, and they weren't the ones to suffer the consequences, were they?  She didn't think any of the ones here would be capable of it, but she would certainly be keeping a sharp eye out.

Bridget pressed her nose just to the side of Teya's muzzle as she left a kiss that did linger.  It could be the season making her act like this, but the medic leaned in and against her and didn't shift to pull back.  There may be years it doesn't.  I think it depends on a few things, food and stability and stress.  If the body knows it is not in a position to have children, sometimes it won't bother.  She'd seen it in the past.  There'd even been a faerie who had never seen a season despite a desire for children.  They'd tried a few things to help, and the woman had never stopped trying, but at the point of her departure had yet to succeed.  Perhaps it had been the overpopulation of the pack at the time, but Bridget couldn't help but think it was likely something else.  Something inside her that knew something the woman didn't.

Mine usually comes with the late spring, she added with a wink and a slightly connotative smile.  Last year she'd been kept at bay by her mentor, but this year there'd be no warden to force her in a cage.  Oh boy.

It wasn't a huge surprise that her family hadn't taught her this, but Bridget did have a moment to feel sorry for it.  She'd learned from both her mentor and her mother and each of them had had a different take.  The healer had been mostly business when she spoke of the cycles and the factors that went in, but her mother had been the one to tell her about men.  Bridget felt a sudden stab of homesickness, one that surprised her.  She hadn't missed her mother in a long while.

Your home wasn't much for teaching this, was it? she asked, understanding coloring the question.  Sometimes it was better to refrain from stating the obvious, but Bridget sensed that Teya refrained from stating a lot.  No way to get to know her friend better but to begin to say it for her.