Redsand Canyon led by a beating heart

Aquene hummed at his statement and nuzzled lightly at his shoulder. “You never have to find out.” She knew everything would not always be smooth sailing; that was not the nature of a healthy relationship… but she would always be there and stand by him just as she knew that he would her.
 
He admitted he would prefer sons and she frowned with his reasoning. “I will worry more about sons, running off into a fight like their father.” She mused back. She had tended her brothers wounds and she had seen them cradle to grave and her heart ached at the idea of sons meeting the same fate as their uncles. Mereo was a military pack. She knew daughters could face the same fate, but she had never lost a woman to war, only the cruelty of men which she knew Mereo did not have.
 
It was true, they could want to learn about healing and she chuckled softly. “They are all going to learn at least the basics even if they do not want to… that way I know they can take care of themselves and their injuries if they’re away from us for more than a few hours.” She did not need the terror that her children were bleeding out somewhere because they did not know how to mend their own wounds. “Maybe they will all be healers and still follow Towhee around everywhere harassing her.” She smirked a little to lighten the mood.