Moonspear hush

It may be noted that Sialuk & Elentari have been sharing the ulaq throughout their respective pregnancies. Welcome @Acrux! <3

Their time had come at last. They would be mothers, together. 

Sialuk's cry alerted her that she had begun her labor. Elentari had been feeling uncomfortable that day and did not stray more than a few yards of their shared dwelling. Instinct told her to keep close. As the hours stretched on, the discomfort in her belly turned into a deep cramping.

As the first stab of hot pain nearly tore her in half, she gasped aloud, dark legs buckling. Clenching her teeth, she slid inside the recesses of the ulaq, taking up a space of her own, before Sialuk arrived a short time later. Her labor seemed to progress more slowly than the Ostrega's. The waves of contractions came and went. Her groans of agony resonating in the background, while the experienced Towhee lent support for Sialuk.

Her child born without incident, the Archer would have marveled. Would have reached out to stroke and dote on her lover and friend. But she was too wrought with pain. Something ripped inside her and she screamed. Bearing down, she pushed. And then it was over, as a single child entered the world. In earnest, she reached down to clean him, freeing her son from the binding sac. Willing air into his lungs, smoothing and drying his coat with motherly kisses. A dark, storm cloud like child, but dappled with white. 

A new star glimmered to life.