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her eyelids had just fluttered shut when glaukos arrived. for such a bearish man, he approached with an almost preternatural silence, and heda had hardly registered his arrival before the beaver smacked upon the ground.
swearing she could hear its organs leaping in liquid, the thin woman was sick once more, lurching away from glaukos just in time to collapse weakly in the shallows, nothing left in her belly to give despite the grind of her sides.
when she could straighten again, heda tried not to look at him, instead scrubbing frantically at arms and mouth with a self-deprecating, weakened laugh; "it's definitely not glamorous to be with child."