Redhawk Caldera The old red hills of home

Of course it's going to change things. He was right. There was no way things were going to be the same after this. It took her a moment to realize, though, that he sounded happy about that. About as long as it took for him to kindly point out the fact.

She was clearly stunned by the fact that this was good news to him and didn't bother hiding it. Physically she at least calmed down a little, but the relaxing of her posture came with a cutting loneliness. He wasn't scared at all about this. Why was she?

She didn't know, but clearly they were on two very different pages with this entire situation. Her ears twitched back when he finished with an affectionate dubbing of her new status. She might have retreated into silence if that hadn't annoyed her enough to elicit a reaction.

This isn't good news. Her tail lashed. So just... don't. Okay? She was skewing sideways from annoyed into emotional territory and her throat tightened in response to it. Some unreasonable part of her had wanted to drive him out of this conversation by kicking it off stating she didn't need him. And that same part, right now, wanted nothing more than to smash the smile she heard behind his words off his face.

It wasn't even that she didn't want kids. She just hadn't wanted them like this, without any planning or guarantees. She'd been there as her mom did the exact same thing twice over and known, deep down, she'd never be capable of the same. Yet here she was.

I have to figure out what I'm going to tell mom. Fennec turned towards him. Despite her flat tone, there was a hint of remorse. I can't deal with happy right now. I can't. And now seemed good a time as any to try and make a quick