Ravensblood Forest Love Goes On And On

she should have brought the girl back sooner.
lorelai moved ahead. erzulie expected that her family would tend her from here and so she did not press to the borders, nor after the young woman. 
hours shifted. erzulie lingered close upon the edge of sacrarium, though not so near that she would disturb the delicate tension of birth. her own body felt responsive to it all, but this time it was far easier for the obsidian to focus on another woman than it was herself.
eventually she was called.
erzulie was respectful as she walked along them, recognizing some faces but not all of them. her attention was for lorelai, however. when the seawife was admitted to the den she smiled broadly to see the new young mother with two babes tucked at her side. "well done," erzulie murmured, ears shifting forward. "are dey nursin' well?"