Moonspear Calm Water

Meerkat's pregnancy had been more difficult that Sialuk had seen with her own mother, but perhaps that was due to the stress her village sister had endured over the past several weeks. It could not have helped. Sialuk nodded when Njord drew the same conclusion in his own way of saying.

Sometimes, it is the way of things to be difficult. Be there for Meerkat as often as you are able, and this will ease her mind, Sialuk assured him. If pregnancy is difficult in beginning, it is often not so in the end. The starwoman hoped it would mean a quick and easy birth for Meerkat and her new children.