Broken Antler Fen birchwood

what teya had only taken for a new lushness about ibis become something lastingly difficult, and while she stepped forward at once to offer her rangy shoulder, the girl was contemplative. the man akavir had long been gone from them, and while there was no judgement inside teya for the normalcy of the season, she wondered who it had been.
"you have all brecheliant. we welcome baby," she grinned, though her heart stirred with jealousy and something like sickness. she thought of bridget, of the warm desire between them, and how different it was from the jagged snipe her heart had taken.
they walked, teya allowing the auspex to set their pace. "will you be only mother here this year?" she had suspected lovelorn maia, but did had not meddled in affairs of permission or direct inquiry.