Verdigris Ravine [M] Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

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No posting/birthing order. IDK what y'alls baby names are so I'm tagging your other accounts @Taggak @Greyfalcon @Andanari

After settling @Towhee near water and snapping some final threat to @Zoug, presumably, S'ari stumbled away to her birthing den. By this time, the contractions were coming faster. This whole thing had probably been helped along by the trauma of watching Towhee birth her dead sunlings. It had caused some instinct in her body to react, to give birth also. She just prayed to all the gods and beings and fairy creatures that her children came out alive and whole.

It took another hour or so, and then the first one came. She licked and licked it until it cried, and then, the coppery taste of blood on her tongue, she birthed the second. It was painful, but she kept quiet, as all female animals did in birth, so that predators would not find her or the babes. She licked this one, too, until it cried, then she pressed it to her belly beside the first. Finally, the last one came, and this one was licked and licked, as well, until its tiny cries filled her ears, and she pushed it to her belly.

Then there was a final push, and with the scent of blood and offal in her nose, she knew this to be the afterbirth, which she ate to give her strength. Then she collapsed tiredly and let her babes suckle, and fell asleep. Honestly, it had all happened much faster than she'd expected, for which she was grateful, and her pups seemed healthy. That was all she could ask for. As she drifted off, she thought of Towhee, wondering if news of her own healthy birth would bring the woman solace or sorrow...