Redhawk Caldera The skies are always blue

Eljay nodded when Maia explained that she felt different, where last year, she didn't notice anything. It was possible; if you didn't know how pregnancy felt, then it could be that you felt nothing while the next year it turned out that there was something to feel. You just didn't recognise it yet. At least Eljay had heard it in other women, too, that pregnancies could differ in that way. It wasn't anything out of the ordinary.

He smiled when Maia said she just had less energy and that maybe the pups were trying to grow quicker. So we can meet them quicker, Eljay said softly, and he nuzzled Maia's nose gently. Have you thought of any names? Then, realising that he hadn't really pulled his own weight in the naming-thing, he added as a pre-emptive answer to his own question: I always feel like it's easier when they're there, when you can see them.