Neverwinter Forest (m) he reflects hope and worry like a troubadour

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Towhee’s days were filled with dread and regret once her heat waned. Maybe her body was in fine form—and that still gave her considerable cheer—but otherwise she wasn’t in a good place to have pups. She also hated that she’d only managed a single bedfellow. There was no pretending she didn’t know who’d sired them, even if she didn’t know his name.

She spent the night at the edge of Neverwinter Forest, its quiet stretches of pine always a comfort to her. Towhee wasn’t sure what to do with herself next. She supposed she should start making the rounds again, maybe start with Meerkat since she was due pretty soon. She toyed with the idea of settling in the copse to have her own litter and started swearing loudly as she unfurled and slowly climbed to all fours.

Before she did anything else, Towhee needed a drink of water. She headed deeper into the trees, nose combing through all the scents on the cold February air. She thought she caught a whiff of a familiar one but became distracted by a sudden gush of fluid from her backside.

Did I really just piss mys— she yelled, expecting to see a yellow puddle spreading in the snow beneath her. Oh, Towhee exclaimed when she looked down and saw a bright red smear instead, shit.

Her abdomen suddenly clenched with a cramp she would rate around 6 out of 10 on the pain scale. She instinctively squatted as she passed something else, something solider. When she glanced down again, there was a small red blob melting into the snow. Towhee couldn’t help but think of her miscarriage a few years back.

This was not nearly as traumatizing. In fact, as the pain ebbed and the bleeding stopped, Towhee stood up to her full height again and felt… well, she felt relieved.