Swiftcurrent Creek homage

one big puppy arrival post! jakoul will likely have one more post after this and then i will open it up to anyone who wants to react!

It all sounded nice.

Yet what followed was not nice. The true start of the birth of her children. Jakoul was not dazzled by the miracles of motherhood. She only knew that it might be worth it on the other side. Once the children were free and no longer kick, pushed and shoved every organ.

Medicine for pain had been given as promised, now she only had nature to follow in the tired swells of this all.

The first came quick. A girl — Mae. Dark with the den's limited light and the collection of birth. She wondered if they all would look like so. Inky blobs with limited movement. She loved them already. Cleaned and placed at her side, a task that Reverie might be welcomed in as another saw fit to follow.

The next was a son. Once more a blob of ink ready to mark the world. Once more she found a tired, hazy love wormed into her chest. This one would be @Nicodem — for she would decide all of them in this tired place of love. He too would be slotted along her side.

Was she done? For a moment she thought so. She had nearly been prepared to fall asleep in the thick sounds and scents of the space. Her features sagged with the exhaustion and weight of it all.

Only to realize that there was one more to come. One more who could not be left behind. This one seemed as easy as the first, prepared to arrive. It mattered not if he was ready, only that he would. Only that she was there to welcome him and love him. Another son! This one @Jakub and loved as much as the two before him.

She might have stared at them in confusion and awe did she not pant now. Felt the strong pulling hand of a needed slumber.

Yet she held out with a look to Reverie — were they okay? Was she okay?