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teya shook her head from where she had lowered it. "when i feel it almost time, i send him away, to blackwater, to bring you home. he not here for the birth. and i not ask him before he left."
there was a burr of pain clinging to the underside of her ribcage, that reyes had seen her so pregnant and had not even protested a departure. she had ordered him as his leader and yet teya had hoped he would ask to say, or offer even a bare resistance to leaving just days before her labour began.
"did it alone." her head came up. teya stropped at the ground with her foreclaws and moved sorana toward her engorged chest. "eljay came after." she did not know why she kept saying names; perhaps she wanted to reassure bridget that she had not been left to her own devices, that brecheliant had not failed. only reyes had walked away and only teya had told him to do that.