Ouroboros Spine tapsi ▓

Seeing now the uncertainty on the pale tern's features, the girl with the star-kissed brow felt her smile falter but only with concern for the Moon -- mind jumping to the thought that something might be wrong. Her heart did not still with the Alpha's offer but rather hitched, relief finding her that she had not done something wrong and doubling again at the opportunity the snowshoe matchmaker gifted her with. Her lips parted uselessly for a moment, not expecting that she might be given such a chance so soon. She thought then of how Meerkat and Norah had dispersed from the Spine and saw that it made sense, for she alone could be a sister in this -- Sialuk still too young to gift her mother with grandchildren. 

"I..I would," she stuttered alongside the uneven patter of her heart's beating, her tail slowly beginning to wag at the thought. It had always been something she looked forward to -- someday. Perhaps someday had come sooner than she thought but the painter could not deny that her heart warmed and swelled at the notion of motherhood. A thought struck her then and it was the mouse's turn to be hesitant.

"Who would father my children?" she asked the wisewoman quietly, ears drifting lightly. Did the customs of their tribe dictate she lie with a certain male or was she supposed to choose the man who would sire her pups? Did it have to be a man of Moonglow or would Kukutux want Aiwëndil to pick a father from amongst village Glen to cement their alliance -- or maybe even find a stranger? All these questions and more spiraled through her mind wildly, suddenly apprehensive though she was still partial to the idea.