Noctisardor Bypass Blasé and lucky tonight,

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things were — things were all right. etienne had come to see them, and the conversation shared between he and druid and herself had been pleasant, even if they'd both been worried about his paws.
heda was just about to touch her first ray of happiness. she'd been dealing with nausea herself, but had weathered it a little better this time just through sheer force of will.
she enjoyed being with druid; wending her way through rivenwood, she found her sister speaking with a familiar —
tension rippled her hackles and she stepped back into the foliage, not noticing glaukos on more than a baseline level of relief at his presence; she didn't want druid to know she was there, but more than that, heda knew she wouldn't be able to keep herself calm anywhere near anselm, not when her scent was changing and her sense of protectiveness sharpened to high.