Broken Antler Fen birchwood

any lingering green thoughts fled as ibis spoke, voice splintered through with emotion. teya reached instinctively to kiss the exquisite face, all else paling beneath her guilt that she had ever been jealous. in another moment she might have been pleased to know her assumption about maia and eljay had been correct, but it did not matter for now.
"i am here," the little raven whispered to their auspex with no sense of guarding behind it; she meant each word. "for the babies too." teya considered bridget, considered ibis again.
there was no reason she could not love them both.
drawing away, she searched the fearful woman, seeking to lend her silent strength.