Northstar Vale if it be willed

figured we could go a few rounds, just them & babies if u want <3 tasha lmk if aquene would join! <3

tamar's pregnancy drew to a close far later than she had anticipated. 

the children swelled her hips. walking was near impossible. 

through her husband, word had come that @Aquene and her family would not be joining them. tamar could not think upon this too bitterly, and sent word back to invite her friend, and to ask her to stay for the birth. perhaps it was selfish, but as time closed upon her heels, tamar grew more and more nervous.

it was a day of warm rain. she had been near the willows, in the place she had come to think of as an oasis. and there the pains had come upon her, and had broken her waters upon the mossy shore. for @Arsenio she had cried, and with his help she had returned to the den in the maples, a place of green-wrapped stones and fern-leaves lining every inch.
and here she lay, and here she moaned and cried out. the pain was almost immeasurable, and at last tamar began to cry for her mother, in the words she had only ever heard spoken in the sand — and by jawahir.
in the midst of her prayers, her body bore down, and @Antigone was born. the maples moved their rainwet branches in a whispering song. tamar pulled the boy closer and called weakly for her husband.