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fiona's innocuous enough question almost dislodged the gently warm look from heda's face. "i was married then," she murmured, bending over one pup or another in hopes the shadow would not climb to her eyes where fiona could see. "we had a home and a pack. i gave birth to four and then another four were brought to us."
she reminisced through those sleepless, wonderful days when she had never felt so close to caracal and to the god who had watched over them. until he did not.
her golden eyes found fiona. she did not know what exactly the other woman knew of her liasion, and found she could not ask directly.
her paw stroked gideon's head, played with ezra's paw. 
"when i got here and found druid, she — had fewer qualms than i did about my ... ah ... natural situation. she offered glaukos' attention until the week ended," heda said, looking up to find fiona's eyes, "and i accepted."
there. the former hollow wolf was a smart creature; she could figure this out. with it came the reward of knowing something no one else did, something that could be leveraged.
five heartbeats went by. heda slowly shifted her gaze back toward her sons.