Swiftcurrent Creek Doesn't matter if you don't wanna play my game

Mae was doing her absolute best to stay calm and hold back her tears, but her lower jaw trembled a little. She looked down at Cygnet, at how small and helpless she was, and knew that she would have to be strong. So she did as Arric asked, curling around the baby carefully so as not to disturb her bleeding stump of a tail.

Y-you're too white to be my sister, but that's okay, Mae whispered to her, hoping that it would soothe her. She wasn't aware that the newborn couldn't hear her. I got a little white too. No one w-will know.