Broken Antler Fen pleisosaur

"then you have more baby. or you do not. you live more life." wraen had no children and was older than each of them. yet there was a satisfaction in the apple-hue eyes that had always dazzled teya with the want to one day have such peace. she could not know the things the older woman suffered, but wraen had not ever spoken of children and of men in such an exhausting way.
frustrated, now, and she did not mean to be. calming herself. swallowing. her dedication was to ibis and to brecheliant, and to these children. ibis had said herself that they did not need akavir. why did she wind her life around him so? "he did thing a father does. he look for child who is lost."
quick shrugging; "maybe he not deserve you. maybe it not about deserve." as for the waiting, "should you wait for all time? why? you like to be mother. now you have children that have love."
she really should go, before —
"he knows you have baby now. did he say words about it?"